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OFT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oft mean? 

OFT (adverb)
  The adverb OFT has 1 sense:

1. many times at short intervalsplay

  Familiarity information: OFT used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OFT (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Many times at short intervals

Synonyms:

frequently; oft; often; oftentimes; ofttimes

Context example:

we often met over a cup of coffee


 Context examples 


Robin, thou red-headed lurden, how oft must I tell thee not to shoot straight with a quarter-wind blowing across the mark?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the yellow shimmer of the autumn sunshine it lay as peacefully and as still as he had oft pictured it to himself in his dreams.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This worthy gentleman must be one of those great painters of whom I have oft heard brother Bartholomew speak in the old days at Beaulieu.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We hold Bertrand in high esteem, for he has oft before been at great pains to furnish us with an honorable encounter.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I never have,” said Alleyne frankly, “though I have oft heard talk of their deeds.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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