frequent
adjectiveverbattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//fɹɪˈkwɛnt//
- United States//ˈfɹiː.kwənt//
Done or occurring often; common.
adjective
- 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
obsoleteFull; crowded; thronged.
'Tis Caesar's will to have a frequent senate.
- 5
obsoleteOften or commonly reported.
'Tis frequent in the city he hath subdued / The Catti and the Daci.
Etymology
From Old French frequent, from Latin frequens (“crowded, crammed, frequent, repeated, etc.”), possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *bʰrekʷ- (“to cram together”).
verb
- 1
To visit often.
I used to frequent that restaurant.
Etymology
From Old French frequenter, from Latin frequentare (“to fill, crowd, visit often, do or use often, etc.”), from frequens (“frequent, crowded”).
Forms
- comparative
- more frequent, frequenter
- superlative
- most frequent, frequentest
- past tense
- frequented
- past participle
- frequented
- present participle
- frequenting
- third person singular
- frequents
frequent · Done or occurring often; common.
frequently · At frequent intervals.fresh · Newly produced or obtained; recent.Fresh · A surname from German.