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now and again

now and again adverb: synonym of occasionally, sometimes, intermittently.

Adverb

now and again (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Synonym of occasionally, sometimes, intermittently.
    • I still go swimming now and again, but not as often as when I was a child.

now and again meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

now and again in Urdu

باربار

now and again in Bengali

মাঝে মাঝে, কখনও কখনও, বিরতিহীন ভাবে

now and again in Malayalam

now and then, occasionally, from time to time
പിന്നെയും പിന്നെയും, വാരേണ, വീണ്ടും വീണ്ടും, ചിലപ്പോൾ, ചിലപ്പം, ഇടയ്ക്കിടയ്ക്ക്

Synonyms of now and again

All synonyms of now and again

Questions about now and again

What does now and again mean?
Now and again means synonym of occasionally, sometimes, intermittently.
What is now and again in Urdu?
Now and again in Urdu is باربار. See Now and again meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is now and again?
Now and again is an adverb.

Words near now and again in the dictionary

  1. Novyi Vytkiv
  2. Novys
  3. nováčekite
  4. now
  5. now a days
  6. now and again
  7. now and then
  8. now for
  9. now hear this
  10. now I've heard everything
  11. now I've seen everything

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: now and again (page history and authors); now and again (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); now and again (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); now and again (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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