Frequent Meaning
/ˈfɹiː.kwənt/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjDone or occurring often; common.
adjOccurring at short intervals.
Sentence Examples
The teacher was worried by Tom's frequent absence from class.
We had frequent snowfalls last year.
He is a frequent visitor to this country.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Because she lived near the airport, she heard ____ noises from planes.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She is a ____ visitor to the local library, often spending her entire Saturday afternoon reading there.
Word Origin & History
From Old French frequent, from Latin frequens (“crowded, crammed, frequent, repeated, etc.”), possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *bʰrekʷ- (“to cram together”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking [...]"
— 1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 489:
"Above, the frequent feudal towers / Through green leaves lift their walls of grey, [...]"
— 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LV.2, page 31:
"[E]very Man thinks he has laid in a ſufficient Stock of Merit, and my pretend to any Employment, provided he has been loud and frequent in declaring himſelf hearty for the Government."
— 1709, [Jonathan Swift], A Project for the Advancement of Religion, and the Reformation of Manners. […], London: […] Benj[amin] Tooke, […], →OCLC, page 59:
"'Tis Caesar's will to have a frequent senate."
— 1603 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Seianus His Fall, London: […] G[eorge] Elld, for Thomas Thorpe, published 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
"'Tis frequent in the city he hath subdued / The Catti and the Daci."
— 1626, Philip Massinger, The Roman Actor:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Because she lived near the airport, she heard ____ noises from planes.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She is a ____ visitor to the local library, often spending her entire Saturday afternoon reading there.