frequent
Verb · AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Adjective (2)
- coming at short intervals or habitually“a frequent guest”“frequent complaints”Opposite infrequentSimilar regular, prevailing
- frequently encountered“a frequent (or common) error is using the transitive verb ‘lay’ for the intransitive ‘lie’”Opposite uncommonSimilar common
Verb (2)frequents, frequented, frequenting
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Translations
Adjective done or occurring often
- Spanish
- frecuente
- French
- fréquent
- German
- häufig
- Italian
- frequente
- Portuguese
- frequente
- Russian
- ча́стый částyj
- Chinese
- 频繁 pínfán
- Japanese
- 頻繁 hinpan
- Dutch
- frequent
- Polish
- częsty
19 more languages
- Greek
- συχνός sychnós
- Indonesian
- sering
- Vietnamese
- thường xuyên
- Hungarian
- gyakori
- Portuguese (PT)
- frequente
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 頻繁 pínfán
- Catalan
- freqüent
- Czech
- častý
- Danish
- hyppig
- Esperanto
- ofta
- Georgian
- ხშირი xširi
- Icelandic
- tíður
- Latvian
- biežs
- Lithuanian
- dažnas
- Norwegian
- hyppig
- Romanian
- frecvent
- Scottish Gaelic
- minig
- Serbo-Croatian
- čest
- Welsh
- aml
Verb to visit often
- Spanish
- frecuentar
- French
- fréquenter
- Italian
- frequentare
- Portuguese
- frequentar
- Arabic
- اِرْتَادَ irtāda
- Polish
- uczęszczać
- Greek
- συχνάζω sychnázo
- Hungarian
- látogat
- Portuguese (PT)
- frequentar
- Catalan
- freqüentar
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. frequens, -entis, crowded, frequent, akin to farcire to stuff: cf. F. fréquent. Cf. Farce, noun
1. Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits. “Frequent feudal towers.” George Noel Gordon, Ld. Byron
2. Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent.
He has been loud and frequent in declaring himself hearty for the government.— Jonathan Swift
3. Full; crowded; thronged. obsolete
'T is Cæsar's will to have a frequent senate.— Ben Jonson
4. Often or commonly reported. obsolete
'T is frequent in the city he hath subdued The Catti and the Daci.— Philip Massinger
Origin: L. frequentare: cf. F. fréquenter. See Frequent, adjective
1. To visit often; to resort to often or habitually; as, to frequent a tavern.
He frequented the court of Augustus.— John Dryden
2. To make full; to fill. obsolete
With their sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite.— John Milton
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54