Frequent
['friːkw(ə)nt] or ['frikwənt]
Definition
(verb.) be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place; 'She haunts the ballet'.
(adj.) frequently encountered; 'a frequent (or common) error is using the transitive verb `lay' for the intransitive `lie''; .
(adj.) coming at short intervals or habitually; 'a frequent guest'; 'frequent complaints' .
Typist: Nelly--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits.
(n.) Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent.
(n.) Full; crowded; thronged.
(n.) Often or commonly reported.
(a.) To visit often; to resort to often or habitually.
(a.) To make full; to fill.
Inputed by Carter
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Common, usual, oft-repeated, every day, of common occurrence.
v. a. Haunt, visit often, resort to frequently.
Editor: Maris
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Many, repeated, numerous, recurrent, general, continual, usual, common
ANT:Few, solitary, rare, scanty, casual
Typist: Rebecca
Definition
adj. coming or occurring often.—ns. Frē′quence (Milt.) a crowd an assembly; Frē′quency repeated occurrence of anything.—v.t. Frequent′ to visit often.—ns. Frē′quentage habit of frequenting; Frequentā′tion the act of visiting often.—adj. Frequent′ative (gram.) denoting the frequent repetition of an action.—n. (gram.) a verb expressing this repetition.—n. Frequent′er.—adv. Frē′quently.—n. Frē′quentness.
Editor: Sallust
Examples
- Strange shipping became more frequent, passing the Japanese headlands; sometimes ships were wrecked and sailors brought ashore. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I seem to have been doing that ever since I knew you, judging from your frequent mention of the fact. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Always at hand will be found one or two of the laboratory note-books, with frequent entries or comments in the handwriting which once seen is never forgotten. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She loved him as a kind elder brother; a relation to guide, protect, and instruct her, without the too frequent tyranny of parental authority. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Elizabeth listened as little as she could, but there was no escaping the frequent mention of Wickham's name. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- We see this acted on by farmers and gardeners in their frequent exchanges of seed, tubers, etc. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The mistakes and omissions made in addressing these price cards became no less frequent. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This conversation had passed in a hollow of the heath near the old Roman road, a place much frequented by Thomasin. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Again, Park Lane is a frequented thoroughfare; there is a cab stand within a hundred yards of the house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mrs. Hatch's MILIEU was one which he had once assiduously frequented, and now as devoutly shunned. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Perhaps that was because she frequented a vaster mansion than any of them, the open hills. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Well, I would rather die yonder than in a street or on a frequented road, I reflected. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Why, yes, said I; I had not much respect for the connections you chiefly frequented awhile ago: Mrs. Cholmondeley and Co. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- New York, for a young man who had frequented the Goncourts and Flaubert, and who thought the life of ideas the only one worth living! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Something comes and goes here: there is a shape frequenting this house by night, different to any forms that show themselves by day. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The coroner frequents more public-houses than any man alive. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Edited by Ellis