Often

/ˈɒfən/ · adverb

Meaning

Frequently; many times on different occasions..

Definitions by Sense

1. Frequently; many times on different occasions.
2. (archaic) Frequent.

Example Sentences

I often walk to work when the weather is nice.

I’ve been going to the movies more often since a new theatre opened near me.

It can't be said too often / often enough.

☞ This word [wrap] is often pronounced wrop, rhyming with top, even by ſpeakers much above the vulgar.

How often is the comfort of a whole family abridged by some trifling circumstance, that ought not to have made a visible impression!

Although frogs are able to swim well and often are found in water, they are really land animals.

According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.

1618, Anthony Munday (translator), The Third Booke of Amadis de Gaule by Nicolas de Herberay des Essarts (1542), London, Chapter 2, p. 18, Then came the Ladies to visite him, and the Queene gaue him most gracious welcome, desiring him to be of good cheere: For heere is my Daughter (quoth she) right skilfull in the Art of Chirurgerie, that meanes to bee your often visitant.

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• more often
• oftener
• most often
• oftenest

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