frequent

[fre·quent]

Use the adjective frequent to describe something done often and at regular intervals. If your family likes to read, you may be a frequent visitor to the library. You may also have frequent arguments with your family about who gets to read a book first.

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

Verb
be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place; "She haunts the ballet"

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

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

Adjective
coming at short intervals or habitually; "a frequent guest"; "frequent complaints"


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.


Frequent

Fre"quent , a. [L. frequens, -entis, crowded, frequent, akin to farcire to stuff: cf. F. fr'82quent. Cf. Farce, n.] 1. Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits. "Frequent feudal towers." Byron. 2. Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent.
He has been loud and frequent in declaring himself hearty for the government.
3. Full; crowded; thronged. [Obs.]
'T is C'91sar's will to have a frequent senate.
4. Often or commonly reported. [Obs.]
'T is frequent in the city he hath subdued The Catti and the Daci.

Frequent

Fre*quent" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frequented; p. pr. & vb. n. Frequenting.] [L. frequentare: cf. F. fr'82quenter. See Frequent, a.] 1. To visit often; to resort to often or habitually.
He frequented the court of Augustus.
2. To make full; to fill. [Obs.]
With their sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite.

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

To visit often; to resort to often or habitually.

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Usage Examples

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

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Other Usage Examples

One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.

A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.

The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.

Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

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