frequent

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20
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Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈfɹiː.kwənt/
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/ˈfɹiː.kwənt/ · /fɹɪˈkwɛnt/(UK)

Definition of frequent

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. 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

  1. 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 [...]”
  2. Occurring at short intervals.
    “Above, the frequent feudal towers / Through green leaves lift their walls of grey, [...]”
  3. 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.”
  4. (obsolete)Full; crowded; thronged.
    “'Tis Caesar's will to have a frequent senate.”
  5. (obsolete)Often or commonly reported.
    “'Tis frequent in the city he hath subdued / The Catti and the Daci.”

verb

  1. (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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