Meanings
adverbmany a time (not comparable)
- not comparableMany times, in many instances; often, frequently.
Some months later (I tend to let grids ferment a while), I came upon GROUCHY LADYBUG, and that threw everything up in the air. I’ve read the story many a time to my kids, so I had to add it.
2020 January 13, Deb Amlen, quoting Jim Peredo, “Feline in an Internet Meme”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2020
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many a time. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/many%20a%20time
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