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English

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Noun

  1. The measure of a person's stamina or persistence.
  2. :He has great endurance, he ran a marathon and then rode his bicycle home.
  3. Ability to endure hardship.


Translations

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French

Noun

endurance

  1. #English|endurance


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Endurance \En*dur"ance\, n. [Cf. OF. endurance. See Endure.]
1. A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness;
continuance.
[1913 Webster]

Slurring with an evasive answer the question
concerning the endurance of his own possession.
--Sir W.
Scott.
[1913 Webster]

2. The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain
or distress without resistance, or without being overcome;
sufferance; patience.
[1913 Webster]

Their fortitude was most admirable in their patience
and endurance of all evils, of pain and of death.
--Sir W.
Temple.

Syn: Suffering; patience; fortitude; resignation.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet endurance
n 1: the power to withstand hardship or stress; "the marathon
tests a runner's endurance"
2: a state of surviving; remaining alive [syn: survival]
Moby Dictionary
abidingness , acceptance , age , antiquity , application , assiduity ,
assiduousness , bulldog tenacity , changelessness , concentration ,
constancy , continualness , continuance , continuation , continuity ,
decisiveness , defeat of time , defiance of time , diligence ,
diuturnity , dogged perseverance , doggedness , durability ,
durableness , duration , energy , engrossment , extension , fidelity ,
firmness , fixedness , forbearance , forbearing , forbearingness ,
force , fortitude , frozenness , guts , gutsiness , hardening ,
hardiness , heartiness , immobility , immovability , immovableness ,
immutability , indefatigability , indulgence , industriousness ,
industry , insistence , insistency , intestinal fortitude ,
invariability , invariableness , inveteracy , lastingness ,
lengthening , lenience , leniency , lifetime , long standing ,
long-lastingness , long-livedness , long-sufferance , long-suffering ,
longanimity , longevity , loyalty , lustihood , lustiness , maintenance ,
might , mightiness , obstinacy , patience , patience of Job ,
patientness , perdurability , perennation , permanence , permanency ,
perpetualness , perpetuation , perpetuity , perseverance , persistence ,
persistency , pertinaciousness , pertinacity , plodding , plugging ,
potency , power , powerfulness , preoccupation , progress , progression ,
prolongation , protraction , pursuance , quiescence , relentlessness ,
repetition , resolution , rigidity , robustness , ruggedness , run ,
sedulity , sedulousness , self-control , single-mindedness ,
singleness of purpose , slogging , solidity , stability , stalwartness ,
stamina , standing , stasis , staying power , steadfastness ,
steadiness , stick-to-itiveness , sticking power , stoicism ,
stoutness , straight course , strength , strength of will ,
stubbornness , sturdiness , sufferance , survival , survivance ,
sustained action , sustenance , sweet reasonableness , tenaciousness ,
tenacity , tirelessness , tolerance , toleration , torpor , toughness ,
unchangeability , unchangingness , uninterrupted course ,
unremittingness , unswerving attention , vigor , vigorousness ,
vitality , waiting game , waiting it out , way


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