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Added 9 October 2026

frequent

/ˈfɹiː.kwənt/ verb

In Latin: frequēns, saepis, creber Wiktionary

verb Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about frequent at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

Do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of.
Be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place.
She haunts the ballet

adjective

Coming at short intervals or habitually.
a frequent guest
Frequently encountered.
a frequent (or common) error is using the transitive verb `lay' for the intransitive `lie'

Origin

From Old French frequent, from Latin frequens (“crowded, crammed, frequent, repeated, etc.”), possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *bʰrekʷ- (“to cram together”).

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