Often

Definition: Often

Often

Adverb

1. Many times at short intervals; "we often met over a cup of coffee".

2. Frequently or in great quantities; "I don't drink much"; "I don't travel much".

Date "often" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Often

Synonyms: a great deal (adv), frequently (adv), much (adv), oft (adv), oftentimes (adv), ofttimes (adv). (additional references)

Antonyms: infrequently (adv), rarely (adv). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Often

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Frequency	Sometimes, occasionally, at times, now and then, from time to time, there being times when, toties quoties, often enough, when the mood strikes, again and again.
	Most often; commonly; (habitually).
	Adverb: often, oft; ofttimes, oftentimes; frequently; repeatedly; unseldom, not unfrequently; in quick succession, in rapid succession; many a time and oft; daily, hourly; every day, every hour, every moment;
Impulse	As a rule, for the most part; usually, generally, typically; Adjective: most often, most frequently.
Infrequency	Adverb: seldom, rarely, scarcely, hardly; not often, not much, infrequently, unfrequently, unoften; scarcely, scarcely ever, hardly ever; once in a blue moon.
Repetition	Adverb: repeatedly, often, again, anew, over again, afresh, once more; ding-dong, ditto, encore, de novo, bis, da capo.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Often

English words defined with "often": every so often. (references)

Etymologies containing "often": Wreckfish. (references)

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Modern Usage: Often

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	A number of the inmates, as tough as they acted during the day, would often cry themself to sleep at night (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson) Bet you've heard that line often enough (Notorious; writing credit: Ben Hecht) To avoid widespread confusion, Welsh people often add an occupation to a name (The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a ; writing credit: Christopher Monger.) You should learn to use that more often. (City of Angels; writing credit: Dana Stevens. Based on the screenplay for the 1997 film 'Der Himmel über Berlin') Two eyes, as often as I can spare them (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)
Lyrics	Armchair warriors often fail (The End of the Innocence; performing artist: Don Henley) You took your life as lovers often do (Vincent; performing artist: Don McLean) Love can often hurt you (Give It Up, Turn It Loose; performing artist: En Vogue) I get the time too often on AM radio (FOUND OUT ABOUT YOU; performing artist: Gin Blossoms) But heroes often fail (If You Could Read My Mind; performing artist: Gordon Lightfoot)
Clever	Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. (references; author: Mark Twain) The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him. (references; author: Chinese Proverb) Disappointments are often His appointments. (references; author: unknown) Learn to listen. Opportunity often knocks softly. (references; author: unknown) The greatest actions of love often got unnoticed. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Too Much Too Often! (1968) Often an Orphan (1949) Little Often Annie (1985) I Think of You Often (1983)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Often

Domain	Title
Books	How to Have an Orgasm...As Often As You Want (reference) Tension-Free Golf: Unleashing Your Greatest Shots More Often (reference) The Collaborative Enterprise: Why Links Across the Corporation Often Fail and How to Make Them Work (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Keeping Up Appearances: I'm Often Mistaken for Aristocracy (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	I Often Dream of Trains (reference) Stories Often Told (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Often

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	From an overhead angle, a large black bowl of various colored beans and legumes sits in the center of a dark wooden table. Next to the bowl are a gold napkin and a fork. Behind the bowl are several mounds of different beans. The white lettering above the bowl reads "Eat beans and other legumes often". Shot on 4x5 format. This was used in the 1989 calendar "Eat for Good Health" January 1989. See artwork: PV-19. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).		Small, reddish/brownish papule, often with telangiectatic blood vessels. May appear transluscent, and when it is, described as "pearly" in color. May have a central depression with rolled borders. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.
	This chancre is located on the posterior vaginal fourchette (where labia minora meet). The primary stage of syphilis is often marked by the appearance of a single sore – called a chancre, which is usually firm, round, small, and painless. Credit: CDC.		Six groups are in this genus: A, B, C, D, F, and G, which and are often found in pairs or chains. This organism causes respiratory infections such as pneumonia and sinusitis, as well as bacteremia, otitis media, meningitis, peritonitis and arthritis. Credit: CDC.
	Aerial view of Turnagain Arms, Alaska after 1963 Good Friday Earthquake NOAA photo aircraft often help evaluate disaster damage. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Man-made canal with eroding bank. The cutting of canals often changes the water circulation in marsh systems and can lead to their decline. Credit: America's Coastlines.
	The Northern Water Snake - Nerodia sipedon sipedon - a common, non-venoemous water snake. Often mistaken for the Eastern Cottonmouth or Water Mocassin, Agkistrodon piscivorus. The known range for the latter does not extend further north than the Great Dismal Swamp. Credit: America's Coastlines.		Demonstrating oxygen mask. After arriving at 11,000 feet altitude fresh from sea level, one often feels the need to perk up a little with oxygen before starting the day's work. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	Pole and line fishing with two poles working in unison. Big tunas like this are often landed on two poles in the Hawaiian fishery. Credit: Fisheries.		Closing the purse seine. This picture of early tuna purse seining operations illustrates that often dolphins and other marine mammals were caught as a byproduct of tuna fishing. Today, efforts are made to minimize the harm to marine mammal species during tuna purse seining operations. Credit: Fisheries.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Often


"Cat" by Dave Forsey Commentary: "This cat often sunbathes in the back garden and is usually happy to model for me in return for cheese."	"_TRANSPORT:47" by Janus R. Sørensen Commentary: "We all live in a world of interconnection... a world of continuous dynamicism... a world of perpetual and neverending information transport. In order for our socitey to thrive, we must communicate. New ideas, concepts, and feelings all transverse the gl"
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Often

Author	Quotation
Aesop	Appearances often are deceiving.
Anthony Powell	Self-love seems so often unrequited.
Benjamin Franklin	Half the truth is often a great lie.
Bernard Meltzer	Top cats often begin as underdogs.
Frank Tyger-ferbes	Success is often just an idea away.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe	Mastery passes often for egotism.
MoliFre	Love is often the fruit of marriage.
Publilius Syrus	We die as often as we lose a friend.
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Money often costs too much.
Samuel Johnson	Virtue is too often merely local.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Often

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	And thus the legislative and executive power come often to be separated. (Second Treatise of Government)
Marbury v. Madison	1803	Affirmative words are often, in their operation, negative of other objects than those affirmed; and in this case, a negative or exclusive sense must be given to them or they have no operation at all. (reference)
Communist Manifesto	1848	But the people, so often as it joined them, saw on their hindquarters the old feudal coats of arms, and deserted with loud and irreverent laughter. (reference)
Treaty of Versailles	1919	They shall be entitled as often as they think desirable to proceed to any point whatever in German territory, or to send subcommissions, or to authorise one or more of their members to go, to any such point. (reference)
Winston S. Churchill	1946	This Agreement is more effective than many of those which have often been made under formal alliances. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Often

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	She had no doubt of what Mr. Weston was often thinking about
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded	Carroll, Lewis	We often see one mind a most complex correction of limbs and organs, when joined together
A Christmas Carol	Dickens, Charles	Scrooge had often heard it said that Marley had no bowels, but he had never believed it until now.
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	In some months of the year, however, there often chances a forenoon when affairs move onward with a livelier tread
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	These nuns are not joyous, rosy, and cheerful, as are often the daughters of other orders
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	It is said that his right arm had grown powerless from having been raised so often over the heads of those whom he baptised
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	The men were silent and they did not move often.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	I had often read of some great services done to princes and states, and desired to see the persons by whom those services were performed
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	Only they who go to soirees and legislative balls must have new coats, coats to change as often as the man changes in them
The Merchant of Venice	William Shakespeare	All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told; Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Often

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Use these less often. (references)
		I am often constipated. (references)
		Take insulin more often. (references)
Business		Enforcement is often inconsistent. (references)
		That is why local companies often lose money. (references)
		Price is often not considered a decisive factor. (references)
Children	India	Schoolteachers often beat children. (references)
	Liberia	Deformed babies often are abandoned. (references)
	China	Children of migrant workers in urban areas also often do not attend school. (references)
Civil Liberties	Ecuador	Protesters often blocked roads. (references)
	Yugoslavia	News reports often are distorted. (references)
	Central African Republic	Applicants for asylum often were accepted. (references)
Discrimination	Yemen	Entrenched cultural attitudes often affect women's ability to enjoy equal rights. (references)
	Bangladesh	Women, children, minority groups, and persons with disabilities often confront social and economic disadvantages. (references)
	Israel and the occupied territories	Local human rights groups are concerned that these laws often are not enforced, either as a result of institutionalized discrimination, or because resources for implementing those laws, or mechanisms for their enforcement, sometimes are lacking. (references)
Economic History	Eq. Guinea	Road maintenance is often inadequate. (references)
	Jordan	In the summer, water is often rationed. (references)
	Norway	Its equipment is often state of the art. (references)
Human Rights	Kenya	This privilege often is denied. (references)
	Israel and the occupied territories	These practices often led to excesses. (references)
	Dominican Republic	The method most often used is beating. (references)
Indigenous People	Ecuador	Electricity and potable water often are unavailable. (references)
	Gabon	Pygmies who complained about their situations often were beaten. (references)
	Gabon	Pygmies suffered societal discrimination and often lived in extreme poverty. (references)
Minorities	Ethiopia	In Addis Ababa, persons of different faiths often live side by side. (references)
	Romania	Roma often are denied access to shops, restaurants, and other places. (references)
	Ethiopia	The clashes often result from disputes over water and grazing rights. (references)
Political Economy	Sudan	Minors often are held with adults. (references)
	Chile	Prisons are often overcrowded and antiquated. (references)
	Indonesia	Millions of children work, often under poor conditions. (references)
Political Rights	Yemen	Central government authority in these areas often is weak. (references)
	Mali	The new administrators often are inexperienced and undereducated. (references)
	Bangladesh	Elections often are marred by violence, intimidation of voters, and vote rigging. (references)
Trade	Brazil	The product registration process often takes more than one year. (references)
	Bulgaria	The list of goods subject to registration is changed quite often. (references)
	France	Contracts between firms now often include a request for quality assurance. (references)
Travel	Oman	Taxis are often not air-conditioned. (references)
	Kazakhstan	Note: visa fees change often and with little notice. (references)
	Philippines	A guest speaker is often the highlight of the dinner. (references)
Women	Senegal	Rape trials often result in convictions. (references)
	Kuwait	Procurers often receive stiff jail terms. (references)
	Tajikistan	The threat of rape often is used to intimidate women. (references)
Worker Rights	Uganda	Building codes often are not enforced. (references)
	New Zealand	Unions often exercise the right to strike. (references)
	Greece	The victims of this practice are often minors. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	TWICE, adv. Once too often.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Often

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Andy Rooney	I'm afraid I do, mostly. They have to make so many concessions in their lives to being dead honest to get the money together and they can call it cooperating with the other part, but not being honest about their positions is what it is very often.
Bob Woodward	That indeed is the case. Robin Cook, you have to salute any resignation on principle because it's so rare. It just doesn't happen that often.
Conan O'Brien	Right. I was new, green. I wet myself often on the show, and the ratings spiked when that happened. So I'm trying to do it again.
Dennis Miller	The United States is often criticized for being selfishly isolationist until we want something, like oil or access to freedom-stealing murderous thugs.
Gerald Ford	On occasion, but not often. It's a beautiful, beautiful residence, and people there make it so comfortable. And if you enjoy the challenges I don't think you ever really feel lonesome.
Julia Child	Well, I love baked potatoes with lots of butter. Very often a baked potato is one of the safest things to eat. Say, in a hospital where the food is pretty bad, they can usually do a baked potato perfectly well.
Mike Wallace	What I've often wondered about is Franklin Roosevelt's relationship with his mother. It never occurred to me that he was a mama's boy.
Nancy Grace	I say that the defense attorneys very often choose to believe the clients. So I certainly didn't want to do that.
Rush Limbaugh	If you want a law passed, and it's a good law as they often are, you are supposed to pass it in the legislature.
Sally Jessy Raphael	They've got bikes now, and they've got clothes. We don't do this very often, but someone who wants to remain anonymous wanted to give you something very special. The key goes to a new home.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Often

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Thomas Jefferson	1801-1809	Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	In the example of other systems founded on the will of the people we trace to internal dissension the influences which have so often blasted the hopes of the friends of freedom.
Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	Returning veterans often cannot find a satisfactory place for their families to live, and many who buy have to pay exorbitant prices.
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	Very often a lack of jobs and money is not the cause of poverty, but the symptom.
Gerald Ford	1974-1977	Too often, criminals are not sent to prison after conviction but are allowed to return to the streets.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	I have often said that there is nothing small about small business in America.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	Well, too often it has only made poverty harder to escape.
George Bush	1989-1993	Often, state reform requires waiving certain federal regulations.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	It's a loving, but a difficult and often very expensive choice.
George W. Bush	2001-2005	Corporate greed and malfeasance cause innocent people to lose their jobs, their savings, and often their confidence in the American system.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Often

"Often" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.99% of the time. "Often" is used about 37,602 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	99.99%	37,600	217
Total	100.00%	37,602	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Often

Expressions using "often": ad often ♦ as often as ♦ as often as not ♦ as often as possible ♦ be more often ♦ every so often ♦ go often to ♦ how often ♦ just as often ♦ more often than not ♦ most often ♦ often enough ♦ often times ♦ truth is often stranger than fiction ♦ very often. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "often": often-analysed, often-associated, often-baffling, often-changing, often-cited, often-dared, often-dead, often-difficult, often-dismissed, often-employed, often-fatal, often-forgotten, often-heard, often-illiterate, often-iterated, often-meagre, often-mordantly, often-more, often-neglected, often-noticed, often-ordinalized, often-pretentious, often-quoted, often-remarked, often-repeated, often-revised, often-uncomfortable, often-used, often-when.
	Ending with "often": all-too-often.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Often

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
does epidermal it nevi occur often	36	in new often recruit war	3
forbids honor law often permit	29	engine often resubmit search site	3
often	17	laugh live love much often sign well	3
live well laugh often love much	16	clear often throat	3
how often can you file bankruptcy	8	man masturbate often	3
again aglow am away end fire from home i if often take will within	7	hair often should wash	3
back check here often	6	lawn often water	3
laugh much often	6	feed often puppy	3
difficult find information often that	5	laugh often	3
broadcast often rip update	5	end join most often used	3
bath dog often	5	laugh love much often	3
masturbate often	4	alarming building drama fail in new number often	2
eat less often	4	often phrase used	2
cause interaction mimic often other treatable	4	exercise often	2
17 day from hours often prayer prayer reflecting repetative time time	4	confused often words	2
bond often their too tucked	4	can color hair i often	2
masturbate often woman	4	george most often reproduced sculptor stanley whats work	2
laugh live often well	4	change often oil	2
but checklists difficult find often they	3	girl masturbate often	2
britain dog in nanny nicknamed often	3	i often should work	2
		often workout	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Often

Language		Translations for "often"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		dikwels (frequently, regularly). (various references)

Albanian		shpesh (constantly, frequently, oft, oftentimes, time and again), dendur (densely, hourly, not infrequently, oft). (various references)

Arabic		‏كثيرا ما (oftentimes), ‏غالبا (overwhelmingly, predominatingly), ‏أحيانا كثيرة. (various references)

Bulgarian		често (constantly, frequently, hourly, minutely, oft, oftentimes, regular, repeatedly). (various references)

Chinese		頻繁 (frequently), 经常 (Constantly, Oft, Oftentimes), 時時 (constantly), 時常 (frequently), 每每 , 往往 (frequently), 不時 (at any time, frequently), 常常 (frequently, usually), 常 (always, common, constant, ever, frequently, general). (various references)

Czech		nezřídka, často, èasto (every now and then, frequently, in many cases). (various references)

Danish		ofte (frequently, regularly). (various references)

Dutch		vaak (frequently, regularly), menigmaal (frequently, regularly), gedurig (abiding, continuous, frequently, lasting, regularly). (various references)

Esperanto		ofte (frequently, regularly). (various references)

Faeroese		ofta (frequently, regularly). (various references)

Farsi		کرارا (Freuqently), غالب اوقات , خیلی اوقات , بکرات , بسی (Adequacy, Much, Very), بارها (Freuqently). (various references)

Finnish		usein (frequently, regularly). (various references)

French		souvent, fréquemment. (various references)

Frisian		jamk (frequently, regularly), gauris (frequently, regularly), fakentiden (frequently, regularly), faken (frequently, regularly), faak (frequently, regularly). (various references)

German		oft (frequently, regularly), häufig (common, commonly, extensively, frequent, frequently, prevalent, prevalently, regularly, rids, widespread), oftmals (oftentimes). (various references)

Greek		συχνά (frequently). (various references)

Hebrew		לעיתים קרובות, לעתים קרובות (frequently, oft, oftimes), תכופות (frequently). (various references)

Hungarian		gyakran (again and again, frequently, many a time, many times, oft, oft-times, regularly). (various references)

Icelandic		oft (frequently, regularly). (various references)

Indonesian		sering (frequent), acapkali (frequently, repeatedly). (various references)

Irish		minic. (various references)

Italian		spesso (bold, corpulent, dense, fat, frequently, oft, regularly, soupy, thick), frequentemente (frequently, regularly), sovente (frequently, oftentimes, regularly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		往々 (sometimes), よい旅行を (even if, even though, frequently, if, in order to, Nice to see you!, so that, to be sure to, to come to be that, to make sure to, to reach the point that, to try to, Welcome!), 屡 (again and again, frequently), 屡屡 (again and again, frequently), 屡々 (again and again, frequently), 再再 (frequently), 再々 (frequently), ちゅうちゅう鳴く (a little, dabble, easily accomplished, frequently, hobbling, make a pass at, meddle, now and then, occasionally, restless, to chirp, to squeak, to twitter, toddling), 何度も (many times over), 度度 (frequently, repeatedly), 往往 (sometimes), 幾度 (many times), 予々 (already, lately), 予予 (already, lately), 度々 (frequently, repeatedly), 度々　 (frequently, repeatedly), 兼ね兼ね (already, lately). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たびたび (frequently, repeatedly), おうおう (sometimes), なんども (many times over), しばしば (again and again, frequently), さいさい (annual, frequently), かねがね (already, lately), いくたび (many times), いくど (many times), よく (frequently), ちょくちょく (frequently, now and then, occasionally), ちょいちょい (frequently, now and then, occasionally). (various references)

Korean		수시로. (various references)

Lombard		sovent (frequently, regularly). (various references)

Manx		mennick (frequent, oft), menkey, dy mennick (frequently, on several occasions). (various references)

Pig Latin		oftenay.(various references)

Polish		często (frequently, regularly). (various references)

Portuguese		frequentemente (again and again, commonly, frequently, oft, oftentimes, regularly). (various references)

Romanian		adesea (frequently, many a time, many times, minutely, oft, regularly, repeatedly). (various references)

Russian		часто (constantly, frequently, oft, oftentimes). (various references)

Scottish		minig , minic, minig (frequent), gu tric (frequently, regularly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		često (frequently, not infrequently, oft, oftentimes). (various references)

Spanish		a menudo (frequently, offen, oft, oftentimes, oft-times, regularly), muchas veces (many times, oft). (various references)

Sranan		somentron (frequently, regularly), nofotron (frequently, regularly). (various references)

Swahili		mara nyingi (frequently, regularly). (various references)

Swedish		ofta (frequently, oft, oftentimes, oft-recurring, oft-times, regularly). (various references)

Thai		บ่อยๆ (oft, oftentimes). (various references)

Turkish		sıkça (as often as not, constantly, continual, frequently, more often than not), sık sık (as often as not, constantly, fast, frequently, more often than not, oft, ofttimes, passim), sık (close, dense, frequent, thick, thickly), çoğu kez (dozen of times, frequently, many times, oft, ofttimes). (various references)

Turkmen		яygy-яygydan, aglaba. (various references)

Ukrainian		часто (again, frequently, oft, oftentimes, oft-times, thick, time and again), багато разів (oftentimes, oft-times, over and over). (various references)

Vietnamese		thường (banal, habitual, mediocre, normal, oftentimes, ordinary, still, trifling, trivial, unsatisfactory, usual, vulgar), năng (oftentimes), luôn (oftentimes), hay (fine, grand, oftentimes, pretty, readable, stunning). (various references)

Welsh		mynych (frequent), lawer gwaith (frequently, regularly), aml (abundant, frequent). (various references)

Zulu		kaningi (frequently, regularly). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Often

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	crebrius, crebro, dicta, dictaverit, dictaverunt, dicto, facile, facilius, frequenter, pluries, quotiens, saepe, saepe, sepe, saepius sepius, sepe. (various references)
Old English	450-1100	geneahhe, oft. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Often

Language	Date	Source	John Chapter 18, Verse 2
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Hdei de kai ioudaV o paradidouV auton ton topon oti pollakiV sunhcqh o ihsouV ekei meta twn maqhtwn autou
Latin	405	Vulgate	Sciebat autem et Iudas qui tradebat eum ipsum locum quia frequenter Iesus convenerat illuc cum discipulis suis
Old English	990	West Saxon	Witodlice Iudas þe hine be-leawdewiste þa stowe. for-þam þe se hælend ofterædlice com þider mid hys leorning-cnihtan.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And Judas, that bitrayede hym, knew the place, for ofte Jhesus cam thidur with hise disciplis.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Iudas also which betrayed him knewe the place: for Iesus ofte tymes resorted thyther with his disciples.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And Judas also, who betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus often resorted thither with his disciples.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And Judas, who was false to him, had knowledge of the place because Jesus went there frequently with his disciples.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Often

Language	John Chapter 18, Verse 2
Cebuano	Ug si Judas, nga mao ang nagbudhi kaniya, nakatultol usab sa maong dapit kay sa makadaghan si Jesus adto man makigtigum uban sa iyang mga tinun-an.
Croatian	A poznavaše to mjesto i Juda, njegov izdajica, jer se Isus tu èesto sastajao sa svojim uèenicima.
Danish	Men også Judas, som forrådte ham, kendte Stedet; thi Jesus samledes ofte der med sine Disciple.
Dutch	En Judas, die Hem verried, wist ook die plaats, dewijl Jezus aldaar dikwijls vergaderd was geweest met Zijn discipelen.
Finnish	Mutta myös Juudas, joka hänet kavalsi, tiesi sen paikan, koska Jeesus ja hänen opetuslapsensa usein olivat kokoontuneet sinne.
French	Judas, qui le livrait, connaissait ce lieu, parce que Jésus et ses disciples s`y étaient souvent réunis.
German	Judas aber, der ihn verriet, wußte den Ort auch; denn Jesus versammelte sich oft daselbst mit seinen Jüngern.
Haitian Creole	Jida, nonm ki te gen pou trayi l' la, te konnen ti kote sa a tou paske Jezi te konn vin la anpil fwa ak disip li yo.
Hungarian	Ismeré pedig azt a helyet Júdás is, a ki õt elárulja vala; mivelhogy gyakorta ott gyûlt egybe Jézus az õ tanítványaival.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Yudas pengkhianat itu, tahu tempat itu; sebab Yesus sudah sering berkumpul di situ dengan pengikut-pengikut-Nya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Tetapi Yudas, yang menyerahkan Dia, mengetahui juga tempat itu, karena kerapkali sudah Yesus berhimpun di situ beserta dengan murid-murid-Nya.
Latvian	Bet arî Jûdass, nodevçjs, zinâja ðo vietu, jo Jçzus ar saviem mâcekïiem bieþi tur sapulcçjâs.
Maori	I matauria ano taua wahi e Huria, e te tangata e tukua ai ia: he maha hoki nga hokinga o Ihu, ratou ko ana akonga ki reira.
Norwegian	Men Judas, som forrådte ham, kjente også stedet; for Jesus samledes ofte der med sine disipler.
Portuguese	Ora, Judas, que o traía, também conhecia aquele lugar, porque muitas vezes Jesus se reunira ali com os discípulos.
Rumanian	Iuda, vknzqtorul, wtia wi el locul acela, pentrucq Isus de multe ori Se adunase acolo cu ucenicii Lui.
Shuar	Jútassha Niin suruktajtsa pujumia nuka nu ajan nekaamiayi. Untsurí tsawant Jesus ni unuiniamurijiai nui iruntramtai Jútas Jesusan nui Wáinkiatniun Enentáimpramiayi.
Spanish	También Judas, el que le entregaba, conocía aquel lugar, porque Jesús solía reunirse allí con sus discípulos.
Swahili	Yuda, aliyemsaliti Yesu, alipajua mahali hapo kwani mara nyingi Yesu alikutana na wanafunzi wake huko.
Swedish	Men också Judas, han som förrådde honom, kände till det stället, ty där hade Jesus och hans lärjungar ofta kommit tillsammans.
Uma	Yudas, to mpobalu' Yesus toei, mpo'inca kahiapa-na pampa toe, apa' Yesus pai' ana'guru-na jau-ra morumpu hi ria.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Often

Derivations
	Words beginning with "often": oftener, oftenest, oftentimes. (additional references)
	Words ending with "often": soften. (additional references)
	Words containing "often": softened, softener, softeners, softening, softens. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Often" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aften, Doftana, Folten, Fotini, foxen, ften, Gften, oafen, octem, Octon, Ofek, of'em, ofen, offan, offen, ofmen, ofrten, ofte, oftens, ofthem, oftner, oftun, orften, osten, Ostens, oten, Oteng, Othen, oton, otten, Ottens, outen. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Often"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "often" (pronounced ô"fun or ô"ftun)
4	ô" f u n	soften.
3	-f u n	acetaminophen, deafen, dolphin, endorphin, Griffon, hyphen, ibuprofen, morphin, muffin, orphan, paraffin, siphon, stiffen, syphon, tamoxifen, toughen.
4	-f t u n	chieftain.
3	-t u n	fatten, actin, badminton, batten, beaten, begotten, biotin, bitten, Boston, boughten, Bouton, brighten, bulletin, Burton, button, Canton, capstan, captain, carton, certain, charlatan, clandestine, cosmopolitan, cotton, craton, curtain, Dalton, dentin, dishearten, eaten, enlighten, exoskeleton, flatten, forgotten, fountain, frighten, frostbitten, gelatin, gluten, gotten, guncotton, handwritten, hearten, heighten, highfalutin, intermountain, intestine, jetton, kindergarten, kitten, lighten, litten, lovastatin, Manhattan, marten, Martin, Melton, metropolitan, misbegotten, mitten, molten, mountain, mutton, nekton, Newton, overwritten, Parton, Patten, phytoplankton, piston, plankton, plantain, platen, pleasing, ponton, predestine, prolactin, puritan, rewritten, rotten, Samaritan, satin, Seton, Sexton, shorten, Singleton, skeleton, smitten, spartan, straighten, sultan, sweeten, tartan, teston, threaten, tighten, Titan, Triton, tungsten, typewritten, unbeaten, unbutton, uncertain, underwritten, unwritten, verboten, wanton, wheaten, whiten, written.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Often

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-f-n-o-t"
	-1 letter: font, note, tone.
	-2 letters: eft, eon, fen, fet, foe, fon, net, not, oft, one, ten, toe, ton.
	-3 letters: ef, en, et, ne, no, oe, of, on, to.
	Words containing the letters "e-f-n-o-t"
	+1 letter: foment, soften.
	+2 letters: confect, confute, eftsoon, festoon, foments, fondest, footmen, fortune, forwent, fronted, fronter, frontes, oftener, refront, softens, tenfold.
	+3 letters: confects, confetti, confetto, conflate, confuted, confuter, confutes, eftsoons, falconet, felstone, fenthion, festoons, fetation, fistnote, flection, fomented, fomenter, fontanel, footnote, forewent, forspent, fortuned, fortunes, foughten, fourteen, fromenty, frontage, frontier, frontlet, halftone, infector, notified, notifier, notifies, oftenest, pantofle, pontifex, refronts, renotify, seafront, softened, softener, softness, songfest, stonefly, tenfolds.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern

5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Images: Digital Art
8. Quotations: Familiar

9. Quotations: Historic
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Quotations: Spoken

13. Quotations: Speeches
14. Usage Frequency
15. Expressions
16. Expressions: Internet

17. Translations: Modern
18. Translations: Ancient
19. Bible Trace
20. Derivations

21. Rhymes
22. Anagrams
23. Bibliography

Often

Definition: Often

Often

Adverb

Synonyms: Often

Synonyms within Context: Often

Frequency

Impulse

Infrequency

Repetition

Crosswords: Often

Modern Usage: Often

Screenplays

Lyrics

Clever

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Often

Books

Theater & Movies

Music

Photo Album: Often

Digital Photo Gallery: Often

Familiar Quotations: Often

Aesop

Anthony Powell

Benjamin Franklin

Bernard Meltzer

Frank Tyger-ferbes

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

MoliFre

Publilius Syrus

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Samuel Johnson

Historic Usage: Often

John Locke

Marbury v. Madison

Communist Manifesto

Treaty of Versailles

Winston S. Churchill

Use in Literature: Often

Emma

Austen, Jane

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Carroll, Lewis

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

Non-Fiction Usage: Often

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: Often

Andy Rooney

Bob Woodward

Conan O'Brien

Dennis Miller

Gerald Ford

Julia Child

Mike Wallace

Nancy Grace

Rush Limbaugh

Sally Jessy Raphael

Speeches: Often

Thomas Jefferson

Andrew Jackson

Harry S. Truman

Lyndon B. Johnson

Gerald Ford