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FREQUENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does frequent mean?
• FREQUENT (adjective)
The adjective FREQUENT has 2 senses:
1. coming at short intervals or habitually
2. frequently encountered
Familiarity information: FREQUENT used as an adjective is rare.
• FREQUENT (verb)
The verb FREQUENT has 2 senses:
1. do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of
2. be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place
Familiarity information: FREQUENT used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coming at short intervals or habitually
Context example:
frequent complaints
Similar:
dominant; predominant; prevailing; prevalent; rife (most frequent or common)
regular; steady (relating to a person who does something regularly)
Antonym:
infrequent (not frequent; not occurring regularly or at short intervals)
Derivation:
frequence (the number of occurrences within a given time period)
frequency (the number of observations in a given statistical category)
frequent (be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place)
frequent (do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Frequently encountered
Context example:
a frequent (or common) error is using the transitive verb 'lay' for the intransitive 'lie'
Similar:
common (having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual)
Derivation:
frequence (the number of occurrences within a given time period)
frequency (the number of observations in a given statistical category)
| Conjugation: |
Past simple: frequented
Past participle: frequented
-ing form: frequenting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
buy at; frequent; patronise; patronize; shop; shop at; sponsor
Hypernyms (to "frequent" is one way to...):
back up; support (give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
frequent (coming at short intervals or habitually)
frequenter (a regular customer)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
frequent; haunt
Context example:
She haunts the ballet
Hypernyms (to "frequent" is one way to...):
travel to; visit (go to certain places as for sightseeing)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "frequent"):
hang out (spend time in a certain location or with certain people)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
frequent (coming at short intervals or habitually)
frequenter (a regular customer)
Context examples
Hannah, the servant, was my most frequent visitor.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Most frequent sites of involvement are: sacrococcygeal area, spheno-occipital area, and the cervico-thoraco-lumbar spine.
(Chordoma, NCI Thesaurus)
The lung is the most frequent site of metastasis.
(Childhood Conventional Osteosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Cancer fatigue can result from chemotherapy, radiation therapy, surgery, and other treatments; chemotherapy-induced anemia is a very frequent cause. — 2004
(Cancer Fatigue, NCI Thesaurus)
All sign of the Indians had passed away, but animal life was more frequent, and the tameness of the creatures showed that they knew nothing of the hunter.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is a frequent site of tumor formation.
(Cerebellopontine Angle, NCI Thesaurus)
It is the most frequent type of lymphoma found in the colon.
(Colon Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Any type of DNA sequence rearrangement involving possible exchange and frequent loss of segments of DNA by either homologous recombination or non-homologous end-joining of broken DNA strands.
(DNA Recombination Process, NCI Thesaurus)
“I am sure they will consent,” was her frequent declaration; “I am sure they will be delighted with you.”
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Other less frequent primary anatomic sites include the duodenum, stomach, colon, or outside the gastrointestinal tract.
(Enteropathy-Associated T-Cell Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)
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