"tolerant" meaning in English

See tolerant in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈtɒləɹənt/ [UK], /ˈtɑːləɹənt/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tolerant.wav Forms: more tolerant [comparative], most tolerant [superlative]
Etymology: From Old French tolerant, from Latin tolerans, present participle of tolerō (“endure”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|fro|tolerant}} Old French tolerant, {{der|en|la|tolerans}} Latin tolerans Head templates: {{en-adj}} tolerant (comparative more tolerant, superlative most tolerant)
  1. Tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something. Translations (tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something): հանդուրժող (handuržoġ) (Armenian), цярплі́вы (cjarplívy) [masculine] (Belarusian), талера́нтны (taljerántny) (Belarusian), tolerant (Catalan), 寬容 (Chinese Mandarin), 宽容 (kuānróng) (Chinese Mandarin), tolerantní (Czech), snášenlivý (Czech), tolerant (Danish), verdraagzaam (Dutch), tolerant (Dutch), tolerema (Esperanto), suvaitsevainen (Finnish), avarakatseinen (Finnish), tolérant (French), tolerante (Galician), tolerant (German), ανεκτικός (anektikós) (Greek), toleráns (Hungarian), fulangach (Irish), tolerans (Latin), manawanui (Maori), manawarahi (Maori), ngāwari (Maori), tolerant (Norwegian Bokmål), tolerant (Norwegian Nynorsk), tolerancyjny (Polish), tolerante (Portuguese), терпи́мый (terpímyj) (Russian), толера́нтный (tolerántnyj) (Russian), tolerantný (Slovak), tolerante (Spanish), tolerant (Swedish), толера́нтний (tolerántnyj) (Ukrainian)
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  2. Tending to withstand or survive. Translations (tending to withstand or survive): 能耐 (néngnài) (Chinese Mandarin), bestendig (Dutch), be tolerant of [verb] (Finnish), sietää (Finnish), fulangach (Irish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: tolerantism, tolerantist, tolerantly Related terms: tolerability, tolerable, tolerance, tolerate, toleration
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