habitué

See also: habitue, habitúe, and Habitué

English

Alternative forms

• habitue

Etymology

Borrowed from French habitué, past participle of habituer (“to frequent”), from Late Latin habituare (“to habituate”), from habitus.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /həˈbɪt͡ʃuˌeɪ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

habitué (plural habitués)

1. One who frequents a place. [from 1818]

   Synonyms: denizen, regular

   A month ago the new smoking ban turned thousands of bar-room habitués into reluctant exiles from their usual corner seat.

   • 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

     At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

   • 2011 September 28, Greg Simmons, “The most rock'n'roll hotel in the world? Los Angeles' Chateau Marmont”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Indeed, many guests even became habitués in order to blaze a trail with reckless abandon seven days a week.

   • 2024 February 10, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “The age of the stage”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 1:

     The live circuit's arenas and stadiums, its enormodomes, are flourishing. I am a habitué of them, particularly the O2 Arena.

2. A devotee.

Related terms

• habit

Translations

one who frequents a place, a regular

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 常客 (zh) (chángkè)

• Czech: štamgast (cs) m
• Finnish: kanta-asiakas (fi), asiakas (fi)
• French: habitué (fr) m, habituée (fr) f
• German: Stammgast (de) m, Stammgästin f, Habitué (de) m
• Greek: τακτικός (el) m (taktikós), τακτική (el) f (taktikí), τακτικό (el) n (taktikó)
• Japanese: 常連 (ja) (じょうれん, jōren)
• Portuguese: frequentador (pt) m
• Russian: завсегда́тай (ru) m (zavsegdátaj)

devotee — see devotee

Anagrams

• Thibeau

French

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /a.bi.tɥe/, /a.bi.ty.e/

• Audio

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Noun

habitué m (plural habitués)

1. a regular, a denizen (a frequent customer)

Descendants

• → English: habitué
• → German: Habitué

Participle

habitué (feminine habituée, masculine plural habitués, feminine plural habituées)

1. past participle of habituer
   • 2008, Jean-Marc Moriceau, La bête du Gévaudan:

     Habitués à ne guère sortir d’un cercle de quelques paroisses environnantes, surtout en cette saison d’hiver, quelle raison auraient-ils eu à distinguer entre plusieurs animaux agresseurs ?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “habitué”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French habitué. Doublet of abituato.

Noun

habitué m or f by sense (invariable)

1. regular (customer)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abiˈtwe/ [a.β̞iˈt̪we]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: ha‧bi‧tué

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French habitué.

Noun

habitué m (plural habitués)

1. habitué; regular

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

habitué

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of habituar