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often
English
Etymology
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 (“oft; often”), from Proto-Germanic *ufta, *uft? (“often”). Cognate with Scots oftin (“often”), North Frisian oftem (“often”), Saterland Frisian oafte (“often”), German oft (“often”), Norwegian and Danish ofte (“often”), Swedish ofta (“often”), Icelandic oft (“often”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??f(t)?n/, (East Anglia, Historical RP) /???f(t)?n/
- (US) IPA(key): /??f(t)?n/
- (US, cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /??f(t)?n/
- Rhymes: -?f?n, -?ft?n
- Homophone: orphan (non-rhotic accents with the lot–cloth split)
- Hyphenation: of?ten
- Historically, the /t/ was pronounced, but the current pronunciation was standardized after it stopped being pronounced. Therefore, the modern forms where the /t/ is pronounced (compare oft) are spelling-influenced pronunciations. The traditional /t/-less form is for that reason considered by many to be "more correct".
Adverb
often (comparative more often or oftener, superlative most often or oftenest)
- Frequently, many times.
Synonyms
- a lot
- frequently
- usually
Antonyms
- infrequently
- occasionally
- rarely
- seldom
Derived terms
- as often as not
- oftenness
Related terms
- oftentimes
- oft
Translations
Adjective
often (comparative more often, superlative most often)
- (archaic) Frequent.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act IV, Scene 1,[2]
- […] 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.
- 1618, Anthony Munday (translator), The Third Booke of Amadis de Gaule by Nicolas de Herberay des Essarts (1542), London, Chapter 2, p. 18,[3]
- Then came the Ladies to visite him, and the Queene gaue him most gracious welcome, desiring him to be of good cheere: For heere is my Daughter (quoth she) right skilfull in the Art of Chirurgerie, that meanes to bee your often visitant.
- 1656, John Bunyan, Solomon’s Temple Spiritualiz’d, London: George Larkin, 1688, Chapter 48, p. 113,[4]
- The Shew-bread by an often remove, and renewing, was continually to stand before the Lord in his House […]
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act IV, Scene 1,[2]
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oftener
English
Pronunciation
Adverb
oftener
- comparative form of often: more often
Anagrams
- Reefton
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- what does oftener mean
- what is oftener meaning
- what is an oftener in the bible
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