FREQUENTとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfɹiː.kwənt/

形容詞

frequent (comparative more frequent or frequenter, superlative most frequent or frequentest)

1. Done or occurring often; common.

   I take frequent breaks so I don't get too tired.

   There are frequent trains to the beach available.

   I am a frequent visitor to that city.

   • 1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy‎, Routledge, →ISBN, page 489:

     During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking [...]

2. Occurring at short intervals.
   • 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LV.2, page 31:

     Above, the frequent feudal towers / Through green leaves lift their walls of grey, [...]

3. Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent.
   • 1709, [Jonathan Swift], A Project for the Advancement of Religion, and the Reformation of Manners. […], London: […] Benj[amin] Tooke, […], →OCLC, page 59:

     [E]very Man thinks he has laid in a ſufficient Stock of Merit, and my pretend to any Employment, provided he has been loud and frequent in declaring himſelf hearty for the Government.

4. (obsolete) Full; crowded; thronged.
   • 1603 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Seianus His Fall, London: […] G[eorge] Elld, for Thomas Thorpe, published 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     'Tis Caesar's will to have a frequent senate.

5. (obsolete) Often or commonly reported.
   • 1626, Philip Massinger, The Roman Actor:

     'Tis frequent in the city he hath subdued / The Catti and the Daci.

同意語

• regular
• recurring
• continual
• steady

反意語

• rare
• uncommon

派生語

関連する語

• frequency
• frequently
• infrequent
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語源 2

From Old French frequenter, from Latin frequentare (“to fill, crowd, visit often, do or use often, etc.”), from frequens (“frequent, crowded”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /fɹɪˈkwɛnt/
• 韻: -ɛnt

動詞

frequent (third-person singular simple present frequents, present participle frequenting, simple past and past participle frequented)

1. (transitive) To visit often.

   I used to frequent that restaurant.

派生語

参照

Further reading

• “frequent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “frequent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.