Usually means: Individual receiving medical care, treatment.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word patient:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. patient: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. patient: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. patient: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. patient: Collins English Dictionary
  5. patient: Vocabulary.com
  6. Patient, patient, patient: Wordnik
  7. patient: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. patient: Wiktionary
  9. patient: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. patient: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. patient: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. patient: Dictionary.com
  13. patient (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. patient: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Patient (disambiguation), Patient (grammar), Patient (linguistics), Patient (memoir), Patient, The Patient (Tool song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Patient: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. patient: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. patient: Rhymezone
  19. Patient (m), patient, patient(e): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. patient: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Patient: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. patient: Free Dictionary
  23. patient: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Patient: The Word Detective
  25. patient: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. Patient: World Wide Words
  27. patient: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  3. Patient: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. patient: Legal dictionary
  2. patient: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. patient: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Patient: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. patient: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  5. patient: Medical dictionary
  6. Patient: Brain Injury
  7. Patient: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. patient: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Patient, patient: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See patienting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (of a person) Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.
adjective:  Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.
adjective:  (obsolete) Physically able to suffer or bear.
noun:  A person or animal that receives health care from a doctor, nurse, dentist, allied health practitioner, or other person educated in health care.
noun:  (linguistics, grammar) The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.
noun:  One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
noun:  A surname.

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