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oft

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"Frequently, old-fashioned"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /ɔft/Part of speech adverbSorted fotStarts with OEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. many times at short intervals

Word origin

From Middle English oft (also ofte, often > Modern English often), from Old English oft (“often”), from Proto-West Germanic *oftu, *oftō, from Proto-Germanic *uftō (“often”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian oafte (“oft, often”), West Frisian oft, ofte (“oft, often”), Dutch oft (“oft, often”), German oft (“oft, often”). More at often.

Used in a sentence

  • An oft-told tale
  • 1902, James H. Mulligan, In Kentucky, quoted in 2005, Wade Hall (editor), The Kentucky Anthology, page 203, The moonlight falls the softest In Kentucky; The summer days come oftest In Kentucky;

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