EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE

Meaning of EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE in English

{adv. phr.} At fairly regular intervals; fairly often; repeatedly. * /John comes to visit me every now and then./ * /It was hot work, but every so often Susan would bring us something cold to drink./ Compare: NOW AND THEN.

Dictionary of English idioms . Словарь английских идиом. 2012

EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE — sometimes, from time to time, occasionally, every now and then
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(EVERY) ONCE IN A WHILE — occasionally
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE — {adv. phr.} At fairly regular intervals; fairly often; repeatedly. * /John comes to visit me every now and then./ * …
Slang English vocab
WHILE — I. ˈhwīl, esp before pause or consonant -īəl; also ˈwī- noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English whil, while, from …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
ONCE — I. ˈwən(t)s adverb Etymology: Middle English ones, anes, from gen. of on, an one — more at one 1. : …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
IN — I. (|)in, ən; usu ə n after t, d, s, or z as in “split in two”, often ə m …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
EVERY — I. ˈevr]ē, ]i sometimes ˈevər] adjective Etymology: Middle English everich, every, from Old English ǣfre ǣlc, from ǣfre ever + …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
EVERY — (a. & a. pron.) Every one. Cf.
Английский словарь Webster
EVERY — ( a. & a. pron. ) Every one. Cf.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
WHILE — /hwuyl, wuyl/ , n., conj., prep., v., whiled, whiling . n. 1. a period or interval of time: to wait …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
ONCE — /wuns/ , adv. 1. at one time in the past; formerly: I was a farmer once; a once powerful nation. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
EVERY — /ev"ree/ , adj. 1. being one of a group or series taken collectively; each: We go there every day. 2. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
WHILE — I. ˈhwī(-ə)l, ˈwī(-ə)l noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hwīl; akin to Old High German hwīla time, Latin quies …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
ONCE — I. ˈwən(t)s adverb Etymology: Middle English ones, from genitive of on one Date: 12th century 1. : one time and …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
EVERY — adjective Etymology: Middle English everich, every, from Old English ǣfre ǣlc, from ǣfre ever + ǣlc each Date: before 12th …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
WHILE — prep until; till. 2. while ·vi to loiter. 3. while ·noun that which requires time; labor; pains. 4. while ·conj …
Webster English vocab
ONCE — adv at some one period of time; used indefinitely. 2. once ·adv by limitation to the number one; for …
Webster English vocab
EVERY — (·adj & ·pron) every one. ·cf. 2. every (·adj & ·pron) all the parts which compose a whole collection or …
Webster English vocab
WHILE — [while] n [ME, fr. OE hwil; akin to OHG hwila time, L quies rest, quiet] (bef. 12c) 1: a period …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
ONCE — [once] adv [ME ones, fr. gen. of on one] (12c) 1: one time and no more 2: at any one …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
EVERY — [ev.ery] adj [ME everich, every, fr. OE aefre aelc, fr. aefre ever + aelc each] (bef. 12c) 1 a: being …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
EVERY — every BrE AmE ˈev ri —In very formal style occasionally also ˈev ə r i (and in compounds too) ▶ …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
WHILE — / waɪl; NAmE / conjunction , noun , verb ■ conjunction (also formal whilst / waɪlst/ especially in BrE ) …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ONCE — / wʌns; NAmE / adverb , conjunction ■ adverb 1. on one occasion only; one time : I've only been …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
EVERY — / ˈevri; NAmE / determiner 1. used with singular nouns to refer to all the members of a group of …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WHILE — I. while 1 S1 W1 /waɪl/ BrE AmE conjunction 1 . during the time that something is happening: They arrived …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ONCE — I. once 1 S1 W1 /wʌns/ BrE AmE adverb [ Date: 1200-1300 ; Origin: one ] 1 . on one …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
EVERY
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WHILE — n., conj., v., & adv. --n. 1 a space of time, time spent in some action (a long while ago; …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
ONCE — adv., conj., & n. --adv. 1 on one occasion or for one time only (did not once say please; have …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
EVERY — adj. 1 each single (heard every word; watched her every movement). 2 each at a specified interval in a series …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
WHILE — n., conj., v., & adv. n. 1 a space of time, time spent in some action (a long while ago; …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
ONCE — adv., conj., & n. adv. 1 on one occasion or for one time only (did not once say please; have …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
EVERY — adj. 1 each single (heard every word; watched her every movement). 2 each at a specified interval in a series …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
WHILE — n., conj., v., & adv. --n. 1. a space of time, time spent in some action (a long while ago; …
Oxford English vocab
ONCE — adv., conj., & n. --adv. 1. on one occasion or for one time only (did not once say please; have …
Oxford English vocab
EVERY — adj.1 each single (heard every word; watched her every movement). 2 each at a specified interval in a series (take …
Oxford English vocab
WHILE — I. CONJUNCTION USES /(h)waɪl/ Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Note: Usually pronounced …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ONCE — Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. If something happens once , it …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
EVERY — Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. You use every to indicate that …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WHILE — I. CONJUNCTION USES Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Note: The form 'whilst' …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
ONCE — Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. If something happens ~, it happens …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
EVERY — Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. You use ~ to indicate that …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
WHILE — I. conjunction COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a good while (= a fairly long time ) ▪ I’d been waiting a …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
ONCE — I. adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES once again/yet again (= used to emphasize that something has happened several or many …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
EVERY
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
ONCE — (ONE TIME) [adverb] [not gradable] - one single timeI went to France once, but I didn't like it very much.We …
Cambridge English vocab
EVERY — (REPEATED) [determiner] - used to show that something is repeated regularlyComputers can perform millions of calculations every second.Every four minutes …
Cambridge English vocab
ONCE — Synonyms and related words : alone, already, ancient, anytime, anyway, anywise, apart, at a stroke, at all, at any time, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
WHILE — See: AFTER A WHILE or IN A WHILE, ALL THE TIME(1), EVERY NOW AND THEN or EVERY ONCE IN A …
Slang English vocab
ONCE — See: AT ONCE, EVERY NOW AND THEN or EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE.
Slang English vocab
EVERY — See: AT EVERY TURN, EACH AND EVERY.
Slang English vocab
ONCE — adv. at once once and again once more
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
WHILE — See ↑ ALTHOUGH 1, ↑ DURING 2, ↑ TIME 17, ↑ WHEN 3 ◆◆◆ • ↑ a little while back …
Longman Activator English vocab
ONCE — INDEX: 1. on one occasion in the past RELATED WORDS at once : ↑ IMMEDIATELY at once, at the same …
Longman Activator English vocab
WHILE — n. 25B6; noun we chatted for a while : TIME, spell, stretch, stint, span, interval, period; duration, phase; Brit. informal …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
ONCE — adv. 25B6; adverb I only met him once : ON ONE OCCASION, one time, one single time. he did not …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
EVERY — adj. 25B6; determiner he exercised every day : EACH, each and every, every single. we make every effort to satisfy …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
WHILE — < programming > The loop construct found in nearly all imperative programming languages which executes one or more instructions (the …
FOLDOC Computer English Dictionary
ONCE — adv. 1 once upon a time, formerly, (at) one time, on a former occasion, previously, before, in days gone by, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
WHILE — See: AFTER A WHILE or IN A WHILE, ALL THE TIME(1), EVERY NOW AND THEN or EVERY ONCE IN A …
Словарь английских идиом
EVERY — See: AT EVERY TURN, EACH AND EVERY.
Словарь английских идиом
WHILE — conjunction 1 BAD : The Japanese have a tendency to keep silent while meetings. GOOD : The Japanese have a …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
ONCE — I conjunction BAD : Once it will stop raining, we can go out. GOOD : Once it stops raining, we …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary

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