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# frequent

«frequent» in Mova's school dictionary: **happening often** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (frequent, more frequent, most frequent); verb (frequent, frequents, frequented — formal, «free-KWENT»)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Frequent means happening often. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frequent/#m1)

2) To frequent a place is to go there often (formal). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frequent/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and data lessons, the most frequent value is the mode; frequency means how often something happens in a tally chart. In everyday life: frequent buses, frequent visits. In health lessons, frequent hand washing stops germs. Phrases: «frequent visitor», «frequent flyer», «frequent breaks».

### examples

- Buses are frequent in the city, every ten minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frequent/#x1)
- Frequent hand washing helps stop colds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frequent/#x2)
- She is a frequent visitor to the library. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frequent/#x3)
- Take frequent breaks when you use a screen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frequent/#x4)
- Storms are frequent here in autumn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frequent/#x5)
- The most frequent number in the list is 4. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frequent/#x6)
- Pirates frequented this harbour long ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frequent/#x7)
- Friends and neighbours paid us frequent visits, and we kept open house for all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frequent/#x8)

### note

Stress differs: adjective «FREE-kwent», verb «free-KWENT». Adverb: «frequently». Noun: «frequency». In maths, «frequency» is how many times a value appears; the «most frequent» value in a data set is the mode.

### In the corpora

- [Common exception words are frequent words whose spelling does not fully match their sounds; the National Curriculum lists them for each year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/15/)
- [And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no frequent vision.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.69/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «frequent» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frequent/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.