often
advEtymology
From Middle English often, alteration (with final -n added due to analogy with Middle English selden (“seldom”)) of Middle English ofte, oft, from Old English oft (“often”), from Proto-Germanic *ufta, *uftō (“often”). Cognates Cognate with Scots affen, aften, af'en, oaffen, oaften, oftin (“often”), North Frisian aaft, oftem, oofting (“often”), Saterland Frisian oafte (“often”), German, Luxembourgish and Pennsylvania German oft (“often”), Yiddish אָפֿט (oft, “often”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk ofte (“often”), Faroese, Swedish ofta (“often”), Icelandic oft (“often”), Gothic 𐌿𐍆𐍄𐌰 (ufta, “often”).
Definitions
Frequently
Frequently; many times on different occasions.
- 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.
Frequent.
- […] it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and, indeed, the sundry contemplation of my travels; in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
- The Shew-bread by an often remove, and renewing, was continually to stand before the Lord in his House […]
The neighborhood
- antonymrarely
- antonymforever
- antonymoccasionally
- antonymnever
- antonymonce
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for often. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA