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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adv. Many times; frequently.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Many times; many a time; frequently; not seldom; not rarely: same as oft, and now the usual form.
  2. Synonyms Often, Frequently. Where these words differ, often is the simpler and stronger, and expresses the more regular recurrence: as, I often take that path and frequently meet him on the way.
  3. Frequent; repeated.

Wiktionary

  1. adv. Frequently, many times.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adv. Frequently; many times; not seldom.
  2. adj. rare Frequent; common; repeated.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adv. many times at short intervals
  2. adv. in many cases or instances
  3. adv. frequently or in great quantities

Etymologies

  1. From Old English oft (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, alteration (probably influenced by selden, seldom) of oft, from Old English. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • milosrdenstvi I know of no other word in English which has such a wide-spread variant pronunciation of the common Americans around me. I do not pronounce the t, but many people do.

    As dgstone has alluded to -- you've got to be able to make the hilarious puns with orphan! Oct 19, 2009

  • dgstone Brings to mind a section in the Pirates of Penzance. Mar 13, 2008

  • reesetee Well, if you're a curmudgeon, gerwitz, then so am I. :-) Jul 28, 2007

  • gerwitz I have witnessed the reintroduction of the hard t in often among the educated during my lifetime. Perhaps merely because I am a curmudgeon, this grates against my nerves. Jul 28, 2007

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