What does FREQUENT mean?

Definitions for FREQUENT
ˈfri kwənt; frɪˈkwɛnt, ˈfri kwəntfre·quent

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. frequentadjective

    coming at short intervals or habitually

    "a frequent guest"; "frequent complaints"

  2. frequentverb

    frequently encountered

    "a frequent (or common) error is using the transitive verb `lay' for the intransitive `lie'";

  3. patronize, patronise, shop, shop at, buy at, frequent, sponsorverb

    do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of

  4. frequent, hauntverb

    be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place

    "She haunts the ballet"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. FREQUENTadjective

    Etymology: frequent, French; frequens, Latin.

    An ancient and imperial city falls;
    The streets are fill’d with frequent funerals. John Dryden, Æn.

    Frequent herses shall besiege your gates. Alexander Pope.

    Every man thinks he may pretend to any employment, provided he has been loud and frequent in declaring himself hearty for the government. Jonathan Swift.

    Frequent and full. John Milton.

  2. To Frequentverb

    To visit often; to be much in any place; to resort often to.

    Etymology: frequento, Latin; frequenter, French.

    Latter day,
    Finding in it fit ports for fishers trade,
    ’Gan more the same frequent, and further to invade. F. Q.

    There were synagogues for men to resort unto: our Saviour himself, and after him the apostles, frequented them. Richard Hooker, b. v. s. 11.

    This fellow here, this thy creature,
    By night frequents my house. William Shakespeare, Timon.

    At that time this land was known and frequented by the ships and vessels. Francis Bacon.

    With tears
    Wat’ring the ground, and with our sighs the air
    Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign
    Of sorrow unfeign’d, and humiliation meek. John Milton, P. L.

    To serve my friends, the senate I frequent;
    And there what I before digested; vent. John Denham.

    That he frequented the court of Augustus, and was well received in it, is most undoubted. John Dryden, Ovid, Preface.

ChatGPT

  1. frequent

    Frequent refers to something happening or appearing often or at short intervals. It can also refer to the action of regularly visiting or going to a particular place.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Frequentnoun

    often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits

  2. Frequentnoun

    addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent

  3. Frequentnoun

    full; crowded; thronged

  4. Frequentnoun

    often or commonly reported

  5. Frequentadjective

    to visit often; to resort to often or habitually

  6. Frequentadjective

    to make full; to fill

  7. Etymology: [L. frequentare: cf. F. frquenter. See Frequent, a.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Frequent

    frē′kwent, 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. [L. frequens, frequentis; cog. with farcīre, to stuff.]

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'FREQUENT' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3886

  2. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'FREQUENT' in Adjectives Frequency: #528

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of FREQUENT in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of FREQUENT in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of FREQUENT in a Sentence

  1. Umberto Volta:

    The message we want to get out is if you think you’ve got celiac disease, don’t just go on a gluten-free diet, test for it. i hope doctors keep in mind that celiac disease is a very frequent food intolerance, which should be investigated not only in patients with diarrhea and overt malabsorption, but also in people (with other symptoms).

  2. Jesse Mecham:

    My biggest budgeting challenge before developing You Need a Budget was dealing with an irregular income, but YNAB teaches you to budget only the money you have on hand, so it becomes much more manageable. And now I prepare for large, less frequent expenses (like vacations!) by spreading them out as monthly costs, saving a lot of stress.

  3. Anthony Fauci:

    Someone who is probably a rural worker in the woods, in the forest, in the jungle gets bit by a mosquito who is infected with yellow fever but likely got it from a monkey, so it goes from animal to human, but it doesn't get into the population of Aedes aegypti, which are very frequent in the big cities like Rio de Janeiro.

  4. Chilson Foy:

    If we would have had that work ongoing, way back when, we would have had the ability to research it, to maybe even predict that sexual transmission was going to be more frequent, when a potential virus outbreak occurred, maybe we would've even been on the road to therapeutics or vaccines, but now we're kind of behind, and trying to catch up.

  5. Leslie Lok:

    You can actually find a lot of 3D-printed buildings in many states, one of the things about printing a second story is you require, you know, the machine … And of course, there are other challenges : structural challenges, logistic challenges when we print a second-story building.The three-bedroom home with wooden framing is about halfway finished and is being sold to a family, who wish to remain anonymous, she said.The project is a two-year collaboration by Hannah, Peri 3D Construction and Cive, a construction engineering company.Hikmat Zerbe, Cives head of structural engineering, hopes the innovative technique can one day help more quickly and cheaply build multifamily homes.In addition, concrete can withstand the hurricanes, heavy storms and other severe weather in Texas that is becoming more frequent and severe due to climate change.And since the printer does all the heavy lifting, less workers are needed at the construction site.

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