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Definitions for often
ˈɔ fən, ˈɒf ən; ˈɔf tən, ˈɒf-of·ten
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Princeton's WordNet
frequently, often, oftentimes, oft, ofttimesadverb
many times at short intervals
"we often met over a cup of coffee"
much, a great deal, oftenadverb
frequently or in great quantities
"I don't drink much"; "I don't travel much"
oftenadverb
in many cases or instances
Wiktionary
oftenadverb
Frequently, many times.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Oftenadverb
in the comparative, oftner; superlative, oftnest. Oft; frequently; many times; not seldom.
Etymology: from oft , Saxon;
The queen that bore thee,
Oftner upon her knees than on her feet,
Died ev’ry day she liv’d. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.Use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake, and thine often infirmities. 1 Tim. v. 23.
In journeying often, in perils in the wilderness. 2 Cor. ii. 26.
Who does not more admire Marcus Tullius Cicero as an author, than as a consul of Rome, and does not oftner talk of the celebrated writers of our own country in former ages, than of any among their contemporaries? Joseph Addison, Freeholder.
Wikipedia
Often
"Often" is a song by Canadian singer the Weeknd. The track was released on July 31, 2014, as the first single from his second studio album, Beauty Behind the Madness (2015). The song reached number 59 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 69 on the Canadian Hot 100. The song samples "Ben Sana Vurgunum" by Turkish singer Nükhet Duru.
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'often' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #216
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'often' in Written Corpus Frequency: #505
Adverbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'often' in Adverbs Frequency: #38
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of often in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of often in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of often in a Sentence
The use of isolation and solitary confinement is often proffered as a stop-gap intervention, but juvenile crime is neither new nor rare.
While the Gen Z and Millennial cohorts are both lucrative and interesting, there is something of an obsession with them in retail and fashion that is often to the detriment of older generations, the truth is that more mature cohorts account for a lot of retail spending and there is a significant opportunity that is not always properly addressed.
When you slay, how often do you get to think of who you really are?.
There's no excuse for the kind of violence ... It is counterproductive, since Ferguson ... we have seen too many instances of what appears to be police officers interacting with individuals -- primarily African-American, often poor -- in ways that have raised troubling questions.
One of the important elements of this plan revises the current tax code to eliminate the disincentive for re-entry into the work force, women, who are disproportionately most likely to step out of the work force to provide unpaid care, often lack the ability to return to work because it can be hard to rationalize stepping back into the work force and incurring the enormous expense of child care when you are also making less than the primary earner in your home yet taxed at the highest household rate.
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- dikwelsAfrikaans
- كثيراً, غالباً, غالباArabic
- tez-tezAzerbaijani
- ча́стаBelarusian
- чѐстоBulgarian
- প্রায়ইBengali
- aliesBreton
- sovintCatalan, Valencian
- častoCzech
- yn amlWelsh
- ofte, hyppigDanish
- oft, häufigGerman
- συχνάGreek
- ofteEsperanto
- seguido, frecuentemente, a menudoSpanish
- sageli, tihtiEstonian
- maizBasque
- اغلب, بارهاPersian
- useinFinnish
- souventFrench
- [[go]] [[minic]]Irish
- tric, gu tricScottish Gaelic
- לעיתים קרובותHebrew
- अक्सरHindi
- souvanHaitian Creole
- gyakranHungarian
- հաճախArmenian
- soventeInterlingua
- seringIndonesian
- ofteIdo
- títt, oft, oftlega, ósjaldan, iðulega, þrá-Icelandic
- spessoItalian
- 頻繁, 度々, よく, しばしばJapanese
- ხშირ-ხშირად, ხშირადGeorgian
- жиі-жиі, жиіKazakh
- ញឹកញាប់Khmer
- ಆಗಾಗ್ಗೆKannada
- 수시로, 자주Korean
- زۆر جار, بارهها, گهلێ جارKurdish
- тез-тез, жышKyrgyz
- saepe, saepenumerōLatin
- dacksLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- ບ່ອຽ, ຈະໄຈ້, ຄ້ອຽLao
- dažnaiLithuanian
- biežiLatvian
- честоMacedonian
- байн байн, үргэлжMongolian
- sering, kerapMalay
- spissMaltese
- မကြာခဏ, ခဏခဏ, ခုတင်ခုBurmese
- vaak, dikwijlsDutch
- ofte, hyppigNorwegian
- moozhagOjibwe, Ojibwa
- częstoPolish
- freqüentementePortuguese
- savensRomansh
- desRomanian
- зачасту́ю, часте́нько, ча́сто, довольно частоRussian
- čȇsto, че̑стоSerbo-Croatian
- častoSlovak
- pogóstoSlovene
- shpeshAlbanian
- oftaSwedish
- பலநேரம், அவ்வப்பொழுது, அடிக்கடிTamil
- తరచుగా, తరచూTelugu
- ағлаб, зичTajik
- บ่อยThai
- ýygy, ýygy-ýygydan, aglabaTurkmen
- sık sık, sıkTurkish
- ешTatar
- ча́сто, частоUkrainian
- اکثرUrdu
- tez-tezUzbek
- luôn, thường, hayVietnamese
- suvoVolapük
- sovintWalloon
- 经常Chinese
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