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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 the song "Ben Sana Vurgunum" sung by the Turkish singer Nükhet Duru.
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often
Often is an adverb that is used to indicate frequency or regularity. It means that something occurs or happens many times or frequently.
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
Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman:
Often fish do not form signs of contamination and poison from these levels of heavy metal for two or three years at least.
It doesn't mean we shouldn't try, but we're often looking for a magic bullet and the bright shiny object. Sometimes we need to just have the basics.
Assistant Director General Bruce Aylward:
We talk often about how steep the drop in cases has been. The only thing that has dropped more quickly and more steeply is the new contributions in financing.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.
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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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