frequent
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Definition of frequent
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Done or occurring often; common.
“I take frequent breaks so I don't get too tired.”
“There are frequent trains to the beach available.”
“I am a frequent visitor to that city.”
“During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking [...]”
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adj
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Done or occurring often; common.
“I take frequent breaks so I don't get too tired.”
“There are frequent trains to the beach available.”
“I am a frequent visitor to that city.”
“During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking [...]”
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Occurring at short intervals.
“Above, the frequent feudal towers / Through green leaves lift their walls of grey, [...]”
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Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent.
“[E]very Man thinks he has laid in a ſufficient Stock of Merit, and my pretend to any Employment, provided he has been loud and frequent in declaring himſelf hearty for the Government.”
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(obsolete)Full; crowded; thronged.
“'Tis Caesar's will to have a frequent senate.”
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(obsolete)Often or commonly reported.
“'Tis frequent in the city he hath subdued / The Catti and the Daci.”
verb
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(transitive)To visit often.
“I used to frequent that restaurant.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Old French frequent, from Latin frequens (“crowded, crammed, frequent, repeated, etc.”), possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *bʰrekʷ- (“to cram together”).
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