oftentimes
adv. freq.adv. many times or on many occasions. It is a slightly more formal or old-fashioned way to say 'often'.
adv. frequently or repeatedly. While synonymous with 'often', it is frequently perceived as more literary or emphatic in North American English.
Oftentimes, the simplest solution is the best one.
Oftentimes, small businesses struggle to compete with the marketing budgets of larger corporations during the holiday season.
Oftentimes, the historical records of a region are shaped more by the biases of the victors than by the objective reality of the events themselves.
Inherited from the Middle English oftentymes; equivalent to oftentime + -s. Compare oftentime.
Frequency adverb — typically placed at the beginning of a sentence or before the main verb.