time and again

1. 1.

   repeatedly

   “the unknown word turned up over and over again in the text”

   Synonymsover and overagain and againover and over againtime and time again

Questions about time and again

What does time and again mean?

time and again means "repeatedly".

What is another word for time and again?

Close synonyms include over and over, again and again, over and over again, time and time again. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is time and again a common word?

time and again is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.