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What (who) is often - definition
often
2014 SINGLE BY THE WEEKND
Often (The Weeknd song); Often (song)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
Note: 'Often' is usually used before the verb, but it may be used after the verb when it has a word like 'less' or 'more' before it, or when the clause is negative.
1.
If something often happens, it happens many times or much of the time.
They often spent Christmas at Prescott Hill...
It was often hard to work and do the course at the same time...
That doesn't happen very often.
? rarely
ADV: ADV before v, ADV with cl/group
2.
You use how often to ask questions about frequency. You also use often in reported clauses and other statements to give information about the frequency of something.
How often do you brush your teeth?...
Unemployed Queenslanders were victims of personal crime twice as often as employed people.
ADV: how ADV, as ADV as n/cl
3.
If something happens every so often, it happens regularly, but with fairly long intervals between each occasion.
She's going to come back every so often...
Every so often he would turn and look at her.
= occasionally
PHRASE: PHR with cl
4.
If you say that something happens as often as not, or more often than not, you mean that it happens fairly frequently, and that this can be considered as typical of the kind of situation you are talking about.
Yet, as often as not, they find themselves the target of persecution rather than praise...
PHRASE: PHR with cl
Often
2014 SINGLE BY THE WEEKND
Often (The Weeknd song); Often (song)
·adj Frequent; common; repeated.
II. Often ·adv Frequently; many times; not seldom.
often
2014 SINGLE BY THE WEEKND
Often (The Weeknd song); Often (song)
ad.
Frequently, repeatedly, many times, oftentimes, ofttimes (poetical).
Examples of use of often
1. Edwards maintains that conservatives often threaten, but often come around.
2. But they‘re not often –– they‘re not often vehicles for compromise.
3. These are often fledgling endeavours, still contested, often heatedly.
4. Permission to reprint/republish Often hired and often fired.
5. Unfortunately, this has created what is often an unrealistic expectation that is often unsupportable.