patient
a person who requires medical care
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,765 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 10,290 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a person who requires medical care the number of emergency patients has grown rapidly
- the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause also: affected role, patient role
adjective
- enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance a patient smilewas patient with the children
patient in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Any symptoms going to show that patient might mistake another man's wife for his own.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1
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But he inquired here and there, with that patient shrewdness of young people possessed with a fixed idea.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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He sat there quite patient till twelve o'clock and then walked slowly 'ome, wondering wot 'ad happened and whether Bill had gone.
Bill's Lapse Odd Craft, Part 4. · W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs · Chapter 1
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O ye afflicted one; who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, and yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1
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The drops worked wonders; in a few hours the fever was quieted, and at sunrise the patient opened his eyes once more.
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 · Georg Ebers · Chapter 1