habitué
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French habitué, past participle of habituer (“to frequent”), from Late Latin habituare (“to habituate”), from habitus.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /həˈbɪt͡ʃuˌeɪ/
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun[edit]
habitué (plural habitués)
- 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: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:
- 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.
- A devotee.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
one who frequents a place, a regular
devotee — see devotee
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
habitué m (feminine singular habituée, masculine plural habitués, feminine plural habituées)
Noun[edit]
habitué m (plural habitués)
Further reading[edit]
- “habitué” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French habitué. Doublet of abituato.
Noun[edit]
habitué m or f (invariable)
- regular (customer)
Spanish[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
habitué m (plural habitués)
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb[edit]
habitué
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