Frequent - English meaning

verb

Be present at (an event, meeting, or function).

Usage examples:

The whole sales force attended the conference

verb

To be at an event or go to a place

Usage examples:

[ t ] she attends classes on tuesdays., [ i ] you don’t have to attend if you don’t want to.

verb

To go to a place or an event

Usage examples:

According to recent research, the busy british professional attends nearly 60 meetings a month., a …

adjective

(of an illness) persisting for a long time or constantly recurring.

Usage examples:

Chronic bronchitis

adjective

(esp. of a disease or something bad) continuing for a long time

Usage examples:

Mr. george is resigning because of chronic heart disease., there is a chronic shortage of teachers.…

adjective

(especially of a disease or something bad) continuing for a long time

Usage examples:

Chronic condition the study looks at adults with chronic conditions such as asthma and diabetes., c…

adjective

Occurring continuously over a period of time.

Usage examples:

The constant background noise of the city

noun

A situation that does not change.

Usage examples:

The condition of struggle remained a constant

adjective

Nearly continuous or very frequent

Usage examples:

We had a constant stream of visitors., even in this age of high technology, the popularity of hunti…

adjective

Forming a sequence in which the same action or event is repeated frequently.

Usage examples:

His plane went down after continual attacks

Occurring without interruption

adjective

Without a break in continuity; ongoing.

Usage examples:

A continuing controversy

verb

Persist in an activity or process.

Usage examples:

He was unable to continue with his job

adjective

Too many to be counted; very many.

Usage examples:

She'd apologized countless times before

adjective

Very many; too many to be counted

Usage examples:

Countless times when i needed someone to talk to, she would listen.

adjective

Having or seeming to have no end or limit.

Usage examples:

Endless ocean wastes

adjective

If something is endless, it never finishes or seems never to finish because it continues for so long

Usage examples:

When i was a child, the summers seemed endless., education policy is endlessly debated.

adjective

Never finishing, or never seeming to finish

Usage examples:

There have been endless meetings about this problem., we've had orders from brazil, china, india, s…

verb

(of a ghost) manifest itself at (a place) regularly.

Usage examples:

A grey lady who haunts the chapel

noun

A place frequented by a specified person.

Usage examples:

The bar was a favourite haunt of artists of the time

verb

To often appear somewhere, or to appear to someone in the form of a ghost (= spirit of a dead person)

Usage examples:

His experiences in vietnam still haunt him., this restaurant was one of our old haunts.

adjective

(of something regarded as unpleasant) continuing without pause or interruption.

Usage examples:

The incessant beat of the music

adjective

(esp. of something unpleasant) never stopping

Usage examples:

The region endured weeks of incessant rain., bob talks incessantly about their new baby.

abbreviation

(giving position or direction) left.

Usage examples:

L to r: gordon, anthony, and mark

noun

The twelfth letter of the alphabet.

noun

A metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of water under standard conditions, now equal to 1,000 cubic centimetres (about 1.75 pints).

Usage examples:

A litre bottle of wine

pronoun

A large number of people or things.

Usage examples:

It could be the solution to many of our problems

Amounting to a large but indefinite number

determiner & adjective

A large number of.

Usage examples:

Many people agreed with her

adjective

Without stopping or without interruptions

Usage examples:

A non-stop flight, it felt like we had travelled non-stop for the entire week., he has worked nonst…

adjective

Great in number; many.

Usage examples:

She had complained to the council on numerous occasions

adjective

Many

Usage examples:

She is the author of three books and numerous articles.

verb

Treat in a way that is apparently kind or helpful but that betrays a feeling of superiority.

Usage examples:

She was determined not to be put down or patronized

verb

To treat others in a manner that shows you consider yourself to be better or more important than they are

Usage examples:

She’s angry, smart, and not about to be patronized., a patronizing manner/attitude

verb

To be a regular customer of a shop, restaurant, hotel, etc.

Usage examples:

Special offer coupons can be effective in motivating shoppers to patronize certain establishments.,…

adjective

Lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time; enduring or continually recurring.

Usage examples:

His perennial distrust of the media

noun

A perennial plant.

Usage examples:

Perennials will transform the garden in summer

adjective

Lasting a long time, or happening repeatedly or all the time

Usage examples:

Each year, the nation’s marketers try to answer the perennial question, what do consumers really wa…

adjective

Appearing or occurring at intervals.

Usage examples:

The periodic visits she made to her father

adjective

Happening repeatedly in a fixed pattern

Usage examples:

He suffers periodic mental breakdowns.

adjective

Continuing firmly or obstinately in an opinion or course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition.

Usage examples:

An attempt to stop persistent drink-drivers

adjective

Continuing to exist past the usual time, or continuing to do something in a determined way even when facing difficulties or opposition

Usage examples:

A persistent cough, persistent rumors, the rains persistently fell.

adjective

Lasting for a long time or difficult to get rid of

Usage examples:

A persistent smell/skin rash, symptoms of the illness include a high temperature and a persistent d…

verb

Leave (a place), usually permanently.

Usage examples:

Hippies finally quit two sites in hampshire last night

adjective

Rid of.

Usage examples:

I want to be quit of him

noun

Used in names of various small songbirds found in the caribbean area, e.g. bananaquit, grassquit.

Usage examples:

The grassquit resides in small flocks and likes to use empty bananaquit nests for roosting at night.

adjective

Occurring often or repeatedly.

Usage examples:

She had a recurrent dream about falling

adjective

Happening again many times

Usage examples:

The patient has a two-month history of recurrent episodes of pancreatitis., the 'what ifs' of histo…

adjective

Occurring again periodically or repeatedly.

Usage examples:

Gratitude is a recurring theme in the book

verb

Occur again periodically or repeatedly.

Usage examples:

When the symptoms recurred, the doctor diagnosed something different

adjective

Happening or being done, paid, etc. regularly, rather than on only one occasion

Usage examples:

Recurring revenues/costs/expenses the company returned to growth last year with recurring revenues …

adjective

Done or occurring again several times in the same way.

Usage examples:

There were repeated attempts to negotiate

verb

Say again something one has already said.

Usage examples:

‘are you hurt?’ he repeated

adjective

Happening again and again

Usage examples:

Repeated attempts/warnings, he has repeatedly denied being there.

verb

Go to see and spend time with (someone) socially.

Usage examples:

I came to visit my grandmother

noun

An act of going to see a person or place as a guest, tourist, etc.

Usage examples:

I'll pay him a visit soon

verb

To go to a place in order to experience it, or to go to a person in order to spend time together

Usage examples:

[ t ] we visited a few galleries while we were in new york., [ t ] when are we going to visit grand…