See occasionally on Wiktionary
{ "antonyms": [ { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "word": "usually" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "word": "rarely" } ], "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "occasional", "3": "ly" }, "expansion": "occasional + -ly", "name": "suffix" } ], "etymology_text": "From occasional + -ly.", "forms": [ { "form": "more occasionally", "tags": [ "comparative" ] }, { "form": "most occasionally", "tags": [ "superlative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "occasionally (comparative more occasionally, superlative most occasionally)", "name": "en-adv" } ], "hypernyms": [ { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "word": "specifically" } ], "hyphenation": [ "oc‧ca‧sion‧al‧ly" ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adv", "related": [ { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "word": "flakily" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "word": "unreliably" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "word": "frequency" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "tags": [ "in an abnormal manner" ], "word": "unusually" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "_dis": "67 1 32", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "74 2 24", "kind": "other", "name": "English positive polarity items", "parents": [ "Positive polarity items", "Terms by semantic function" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "63 6 31", "kind": "other", "name": "English terms suffixed with -ly", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "68 5 28", "kind": "other", "name": "Entries with translation boxes", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "67 2 31", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "67 2 31", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "62 8 30", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Ancient Greek translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "66 5 29", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Armenian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "66 5 29", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Assamese translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "67 5 28", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "66 5 29", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Cantonese translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "67 5 28", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Catalan translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "72 1 27", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Central Kurdish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "66 5 29", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Cornish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "67 5 28", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Czech translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "64 7 29", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Dutch translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "68 4 27", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Esperanto translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "66 5 29", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Faroese translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "67 5 28", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Finnish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "65 7 29", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with French translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "69 4 26", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Georgian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "67 5 28", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with German translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "65 7 28", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Greek translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "67 5 28", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Hausa translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "67 5 29", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Hungarian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "67 5 28", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Irish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "68 4 27", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Italian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "67 5 28", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Japanese translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "68 3 29", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Kabuverdianu translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "66 5 29", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Kazakh translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "66 5 29", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Korean translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "67 5 29", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Ladino translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "66 5 29", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Maltese translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "62 4 33", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "66 5 29", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Manx translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "67 5 28", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Norwegian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "80 2 18", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Plautdietsch translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "64 7 29", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Polish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "70 4 26", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "66 5 29", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Romanian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "68 4 27", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Russian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "66 5 29", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "66 5 29", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "66 5 29", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Slovak translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "66 5 29", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Slovene translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "67 4 28", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Spanish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "67 4 29", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Swedish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "66 5 29", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "66 5 29", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Vietnamese translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "65 7 29", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Welsh translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "100 0 0", "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Time", "orig": "en:Time", "parents": [ "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1639, Henry Ainsworth, Annotations Upon the Five Books of Moses, the Book of the Psalmes and the Song of Songs, page 177:", "text": "God ſetteth no houres for the morning or evening ſacrifice because they may occaſionally be changed.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1855, Horace Mann, “On the Statistical Position of Religious Bodies in England and Wales”, in Journal of the Statistical Society of London, volume 18, number 2, page 152:", "text": "Some perhaps worship only on alternate Sundays; others still more occasionally.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1978, Stephen R. Graubard, “Twenty Years of 'Daedalus'”, in Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, volume 32, number 3, page 18:", "text": "The journal, more occasionally, has turned to what might be called \"fashionable\" themes.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2007 August 17, Matt Gouras/AP, “Wildfires Rage in Montana”, in Time:", "text": "Flames could still be seen from town flaring up occasionally on a hill dotted with emergency vehicles.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "On occasion: at relatively infrequent intervals, from time to time, sometimes." ], "id": "en-occasionally-en-adv-6wSJrXpM", "links": [ [ "On occasion", "on occasion" ], [ "relatively", "relatively" ], [ "infrequent", "infrequent" ], [ "interval", "interval" ], [ "from time to time", "from time to time" ], [ "sometimes", "sometimes" ] ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "hy", "lang": "Armenian", "roman": "erbemn", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "երբեմն" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "as", "english": "maze maze", "lang": "Assamese", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "মাজে মাজে" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "as", "lang": "Assamese", "roman": "ketiaba ketiaba", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "কেতিয়াবা কেতিয়াবা" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "ot vreme na vreme", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "от време на време" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "ponjakoga", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "понякога" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "ocasionalment" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "alt": "noi⁶ m⁴ noi⁶⁻²", "code": "yue", "lang": "Chinese Cantonese", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "耐唔耐" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "yue", "lang": "Chinese Cantonese", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "有時" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "yue", "lang": "Chinese Cantonese", "roman": "jau⁵ si⁴", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "有时" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "偶爾" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "ǒu'ěr, ǒu'ér", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "偶尔" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "ǒurán", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "偶然" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "kw", "lang": "Cornish", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "treweythyow" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "občas" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "příležitostně" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "af en toe" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "wel eens" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "nu en dan" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "soms" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "eo", "lang": "Esperanto", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "okaze" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "eo", "lang": "Esperanto", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "foje" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "eo", "lang": "Esperanto", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "tags": [ "emphatic" ], "word": "fojfoje" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "fo", "lang": "Faroese", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "viðhvørt" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "fo", "lang": "Faroese", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "av og á" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "joskus" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "välillä" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "välistä" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "toisinaan" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "occasionnellement" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "ka", "lang": "Georgian", "roman": "šemtxvevit", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "შემთხვევით" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "gelegentlich" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "roman": "peristasiaká", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "περιστασιακά" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "roman": "poú kai poú", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "πού και πού" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "grc", "lang": "Ancient Greek", "roman": "spaníōs", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "σπανίως" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "ha", "lang": "Hausa", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "rana-rana" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "néhanapján" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "alkalomadtán" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "nagy ritkán" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "esetenként" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "nagy néha" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "fo-uair" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "occasionalmente" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "saltuariamente" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "talvolta" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "tamani", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "たまに" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "tamani", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "偶に" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "kea", "lang": "Kabuverdianu", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "asbês" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "kk", "lang": "Kazakh", "roman": "rabaida", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "рабайда" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "kk", "lang": "Kazakh", "roman": "rabaidabır", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "рабайдабір" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "ko", "lang": "Korean", "roman": "gakkeum", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "가끔" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "ckb", "lang": "Central Kurdish", "roman": "carbecar", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "جاربەجار" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "ckb", "lang": "Central Kurdish", "roman": "carubar", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "جاروبار" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "lad", "lang": "Ladino", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "de vez en kuando" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "mt", "lang": "Maltese", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "okkażjonalment" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "gv", "lang": "Manx", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "nish as reesht" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "no", "lang": "Norwegian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "sporadisk" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "no", "lang": "Norwegian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "av og til" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "no", "lang": "Norwegian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "nå og da" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "pdt", "lang": "Plautdietsch", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "enjawiess" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "okazjonalnie" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "ocasionalmente" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "ocazional" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "câteodată" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "uneori" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "inogdá", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "иногда́" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "ízredka", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "и́зредка" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "vrémja ot vrémeni", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "вре́мя от вре́мени" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "gd", "lang": "Scottish Gaelic", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "uaireannan" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "gd", "lang": "Scottish Gaelic", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "corra uair" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "povremeno" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "s vremena na vrijeme" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "príležitostne" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "občas" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "zriedkavo" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "sl", "lang": "Slovene", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "občasno" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "ocasionalmente" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "de vez en cuando" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "a veces" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "ibland" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "då och då" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "uk", "lang": "Ukrainian", "roman": "zrídka", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "зрі́дка" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "uk", "lang": "Ukrainian", "roman": "čas vid čásu", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "час від ча́су" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "vi", "lang": "Vietnamese", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "đôi khi" }, { "_dis1": "85 1 13", "code": "cy", "lang": "Welsh", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "yn achlysurol" } ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "ref": "1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CLXI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:", "text": "Mr Tourville occasionally told his age; just turned of thirty-one.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:", "text": "[N]othing gave him so much joy in conversation, as an opportunity of giving the company to understand, how well he was with persons of distinguished rank and character: he would often (for example) observe, as it were occasionally, that the duke of G— was one of the best natured men in the world […].", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 103", "text": "I had met Lord Ossory in the forenoon, who had come to town occasionally." } ], "glosses": [ "On an occasion, accidentally, by chance." ], "id": "en-occasionally-en-adv-CjmQ5lYe", "links": [ [ "occasion", "occasion" ], [ "accidentally", "accidentally" ], [ "by chance", "by chance" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete) On an occasion, accidentally, by chance." ], "tags": [ "obsolete" ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "ref": "1588, G[abriel] H[arvey], “The Fourth Letter. To the Same Favourable or Indifferent Reader.”, in J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Fovre Letters, and Certaine Sonnets, […] (Miscellaneous Tracts Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I), [London: s.n., published 1870], →OCLC, page 56:", "text": "Were nothing els diſcourſively inſerted (as ſome little elſe occaſionally preſented it ſelfe), what paper more currently fit for the bareſt mechanicall uſes, [...]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1619, John Richardson, John Toland, The Canon of the New Testament Vindicated, page 30:", "text": "I think it is plain, that Origen, whatever Character he may have occaſionally given of this Book, did not judge it any part of the Canon...", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "On the occasion of something else happening; incidentally, by the way." ], "id": "en-occasionally-en-adv-y1s0K0xL", "links": [ [ "occasion", "occasion" ], [ "something else", "something else" ], [ "incidentally", "incidentally" ], [ "by the way", "by the way" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete) On the occasion of something else happening; incidentally, by the way." ], "tags": [ "obsolete" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/əˈkeɪʒənəli/" }, { "ipa": "/əˈkeɪʒnəli/" }, { "ipa": "/əˈkeɪʒənli/" }, { "audio": "en-us-occasionally.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8b/En-us-occasionally.ogg/En-us-occasionally.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/En-us-occasionally.ogg" } ], "synonyms": [ { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "tags": [ "idiomatic" ], "word": "at times" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "tags": [ "literary" ], "word": "ever and anon" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "tags": [ "idiomatic" ], "word": "every once in a while" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "tags": [ "idiomatic" ], "word": "every now and then" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "tags": [ "idiomatic" ], "word": "every so often" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "tags": [ "idiomatic" ], "word": "from time to time" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "word": "intermittently" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "word": "irregularly" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "tags": [ "idiomatic" ], "word": "now and again" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "tags": [ "idiomatic" ], "word": "now and then" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "word": "occasionally" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "word": "on occasion" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "tags": [ "idiomatic" ], "word": "once in a while" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "word": "sometimes" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "word": "sporadically" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "word": "uncommonly" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "tags": [ "obsolete" ], "word": "while" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "tags": [ "obsolete" ], "word": "whilom" } ], "word": "occasionally" }
{ "antonyms": [ { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "word": "usually" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "word": "rarely" } ], "categories": [ "English adverbs", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English frequency adverbs", "English lemmas", "English positive polarity items", "English terms suffixed with -ly", "Entries with translation boxes", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Terms with Ancient Greek translations", "Terms with Armenian translations", "Terms with Assamese translations", "Terms with Bulgarian translations", "Terms with Cantonese translations", "Terms with Catalan translations", "Terms with Central Kurdish translations", "Terms with Cornish translations", "Terms with Czech translations", "Terms with Dutch translations", "Terms with Esperanto translations", "Terms with Faroese translations", "Terms with Finnish translations", "Terms with French translations", "Terms with Georgian translations", "Terms with German translations", "Terms with Greek translations", "Terms with Hausa translations", "Terms with Hungarian translations", "Terms with Irish translations", "Terms with Italian translations", "Terms with Japanese translations", "Terms with Kabuverdianu translations", "Terms with Kazakh translations", "Terms with Korean translations", "Terms with Ladino translations", "Terms with Maltese translations", "Terms with Mandarin translations", "Terms with Manx translations", "Terms with Norwegian translations", "Terms with Plautdietsch translations", "Terms with Polish translations", "Terms with Portuguese translations", "Terms with Romanian translations", "Terms with Russian translations", "Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations", "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations", "Terms with Slovak translations", "Terms with Slovene translations", "Terms with Spanish translations", "Terms with Swedish translations", "Terms with Ukrainian translations", "Terms with Vietnamese translations", "Terms with Welsh translations", "en:Time" ], "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "occasional", "3": "ly" }, "expansion": "occasional + -ly", "name": "suffix" } ], "etymology_text": "From occasional + -ly.", "forms": [ { "form": "more occasionally", "tags": [ "comparative" ] }, { "form": "most occasionally", "tags": [ "superlative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "occasionally (comparative more occasionally, superlative most occasionally)", "name": "en-adv" } ], "hypernyms": [ { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "word": "specifically" } ], "hyphenation": [ "oc‧ca‧sion‧al‧ly" ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adv", "related": [ { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "word": "flakily" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "word": "unreliably" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "word": "frequency" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "tags": [ "in an abnormal manner" ], "word": "unusually" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1639, Henry Ainsworth, Annotations Upon the Five Books of Moses, the Book of the Psalmes and the Song of Songs, page 177:", "text": "God ſetteth no houres for the morning or evening ſacrifice because they may occaſionally be changed.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1855, Horace Mann, “On the Statistical Position of Religious Bodies in England and Wales”, in Journal of the Statistical Society of London, volume 18, number 2, page 152:", "text": "Some perhaps worship only on alternate Sundays; others still more occasionally.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1978, Stephen R. Graubard, “Twenty Years of 'Daedalus'”, in Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, volume 32, number 3, page 18:", "text": "The journal, more occasionally, has turned to what might be called \"fashionable\" themes.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2007 August 17, Matt Gouras/AP, “Wildfires Rage in Montana”, in Time:", "text": "Flames could still be seen from town flaring up occasionally on a hill dotted with emergency vehicles.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "On occasion: at relatively infrequent intervals, from time to time, sometimes." ], "links": [ [ "On occasion", "on occasion" ], [ "relatively", "relatively" ], [ "infrequent", "infrequent" ], [ "interval", "interval" ], [ "from time to time", "from time to time" ], [ "sometimes", "sometimes" ] ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with obsolete senses", "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CLXI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:", "text": "Mr Tourville occasionally told his age; just turned of thirty-one.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:", "text": "[N]othing gave him so much joy in conversation, as an opportunity of giving the company to understand, how well he was with persons of distinguished rank and character: he would often (for example) observe, as it were occasionally, that the duke of G— was one of the best natured men in the world […].", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 103", "text": "I had met Lord Ossory in the forenoon, who had come to town occasionally." } ], "glosses": [ "On an occasion, accidentally, by chance." ], "links": [ [ "occasion", "occasion" ], [ "accidentally", "accidentally" ], [ "by chance", "by chance" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete) On an occasion, accidentally, by chance." ], "tags": [ "obsolete" ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with obsolete senses", "English terms with quotations", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1588, G[abriel] H[arvey], “The Fourth Letter. To the Same Favourable or Indifferent Reader.”, in J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Fovre Letters, and Certaine Sonnets, […] (Miscellaneous Tracts Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I), [London: s.n., published 1870], →OCLC, page 56:", "text": "Were nothing els diſcourſively inſerted (as ſome little elſe occaſionally preſented it ſelfe), what paper more currently fit for the bareſt mechanicall uſes, [...]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1619, John Richardson, John Toland, The Canon of the New Testament Vindicated, page 30:", "text": "I think it is plain, that Origen, whatever Character he may have occaſionally given of this Book, did not judge it any part of the Canon...", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "On the occasion of something else happening; incidentally, by the way." ], "links": [ [ "occasion", "occasion" ], [ "something else", "something else" ], [ "incidentally", "incidentally" ], [ "by the way", "by the way" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete) On the occasion of something else happening; incidentally, by the way." ], "tags": [ "obsolete" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/əˈkeɪʒənəli/" }, { "ipa": "/əˈkeɪʒnəli/" }, { "ipa": "/əˈkeɪʒənli/" }, { "audio": "en-us-occasionally.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8b/En-us-occasionally.ogg/En-us-occasionally.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/En-us-occasionally.ogg" } ], "synonyms": [ { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "tags": [ "idiomatic" ], "word": "at times" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "tags": [ "literary" ], "word": "ever and anon" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "tags": [ "idiomatic" ], "word": "every once in a while" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "tags": [ "idiomatic" ], "word": "every now and then" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "tags": [ "idiomatic" ], "word": "every so often" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "tags": [ "idiomatic" ], "word": "from time to time" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "word": "intermittently" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "word": "irregularly" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "tags": [ "idiomatic" ], "word": "now and again" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "tags": [ "idiomatic" ], "word": "now and then" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "word": "occasionally" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "word": "on occasion" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "tags": [ "idiomatic" ], "word": "once in a while" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "word": "sometimes" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "word": "sporadically" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "word": "uncommonly" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "tags": [ "obsolete" ], "word": "while" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:occasionally", "tags": [ "obsolete" ], "word": "whilom" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "hy", "lang": "Armenian", "roman": "erbemn", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "երբեմն" }, { "code": "as", "english": "maze maze", "lang": "Assamese", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "মাজে মাজে" }, { "code": "as", "lang": "Assamese", "roman": "ketiaba ketiaba", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "কেতিয়াবা কেতিয়াবা" }, { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "ot vreme na vreme", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "от време на време" }, { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "ponjakoga", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "понякога" }, { "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "ocasionalment" }, { "alt": "noi⁶ m⁴ noi⁶⁻²", "code": "yue", "lang": "Chinese Cantonese", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "耐唔耐" }, { "code": "yue", "lang": "Chinese Cantonese", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "有時" }, { "code": "yue", "lang": "Chinese Cantonese", "roman": "jau⁵ si⁴", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "有时" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "偶爾" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "ǒu'ěr, ǒu'ér", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "偶尔" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "ǒurán", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "偶然" }, { "code": "kw", "lang": "Cornish", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "treweythyow" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "občas" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "příležitostně" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "af en toe" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "wel eens" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "nu en dan" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "soms" }, { "code": "eo", "lang": "Esperanto", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "okaze" }, { "code": "eo", "lang": "Esperanto", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "foje" }, { "code": "eo", "lang": "Esperanto", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "tags": [ "emphatic" ], "word": "fojfoje" }, { "code": "fo", "lang": "Faroese", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "viðhvørt" }, { "code": "fo", "lang": "Faroese", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "av og á" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "joskus" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "välillä" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "välistä" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "toisinaan" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "occasionnellement" }, { "code": "ka", "lang": "Georgian", "roman": "šemtxvevit", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "შემთხვევით" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "gelegentlich" }, { "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "roman": "peristasiaká", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "περιστασιακά" }, { "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "roman": "poú kai poú", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "πού και πού" }, { "code": "grc", "lang": "Ancient Greek", "roman": "spaníōs", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "σπανίως" }, { "code": "ha", "lang": "Hausa", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "rana-rana" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "néhanapján" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "alkalomadtán" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "nagy ritkán" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "esetenként" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "nagy néha" }, { "code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "fo-uair" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "occasionalmente" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "saltuariamente" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "talvolta" }, { "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "tamani", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "たまに" }, { "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "tamani", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "偶に" }, { "code": "kea", "lang": "Kabuverdianu", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "asbês" }, { "code": "kk", "lang": "Kazakh", "roman": "rabaida", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "рабайда" }, { "code": "kk", "lang": "Kazakh", "roman": "rabaidabır", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "рабайдабір" }, { "code": "ko", "lang": "Korean", "roman": "gakkeum", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "가끔" }, { "code": "ckb", "lang": "Central Kurdish", "roman": "carbecar", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "جاربەجار" }, { "code": "ckb", "lang": "Central Kurdish", "roman": "carubar", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "جاروبار" }, { "code": "lad", "lang": "Ladino", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "de vez en kuando" }, { "code": "mt", "lang": "Maltese", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "okkażjonalment" }, { "code": "gv", "lang": "Manx", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "nish as reesht" }, { "code": "no", "lang": "Norwegian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "sporadisk" }, { "code": "no", "lang": "Norwegian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "av og til" }, { "code": "no", "lang": "Norwegian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "nå og da" }, { "code": "pdt", "lang": "Plautdietsch", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "enjawiess" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "okazjonalnie" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "ocasionalmente" }, { "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "ocazional" }, { "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "câteodată" }, { "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "uneori" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "inogdá", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "иногда́" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "ízredka", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "и́зредка" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "vrémja ot vrémeni", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "вре́мя от вре́мени" }, { "code": "gd", "lang": "Scottish Gaelic", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "uaireannan" }, { "code": "gd", "lang": "Scottish Gaelic", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "corra uair" }, { "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "povremeno" }, { "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "s vremena na vrijeme" }, { "code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "príležitostne" }, { "code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "občas" }, { "code": "sk", "lang": "Slovak", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "zriedkavo" }, { "code": "sl", "lang": "Slovene", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "občasno" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "ocasionalmente" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "de vez en cuando" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "a veces" }, { "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "ibland" }, { "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "då och då" }, { "code": "uk", "lang": "Ukrainian", "roman": "zrídka", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "зрі́дка" }, { "code": "uk", "lang": "Ukrainian", "roman": "čas vid čásu", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "час від ча́су" }, { "code": "vi", "lang": "Vietnamese", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "đôi khi" }, { "code": "cy", "lang": "Welsh", "sense": "at relatively infrequent intervals", "word": "yn achlysurol" } ], "word": "occasionally" }
Download raw JSONL data for occasionally meaning in All languages combined (18.0kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (bb46d54 and 0c3c9f6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.