habitué

Alternative forms

• habitue

Etymology

Borrowed from French habitué past participle of habituer (“to frequent”), from Late Latin habituare (“to habituate”), from Latin habitus. Date: 1818

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /həˈbɪt͡ʃuˌeɪ/

Noun

habitué (plural habitués)

1. One who frequents a place; a denizen or 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, Franklin Square, 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.

2. A devotee.

Anagrams

• Thibeau

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /a.bi.tɥe/

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Verb

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

1. past participle of habituer

Noun

habitué m (plural habitués)

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

Further reading

• “habitué” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Noun

habitué m, f (invariable)

1. regular (customer)

Noun

habitué m (plural habitués)

1. habitué; regular

Verb

habitué

1. First-person singular (yo) preterite indicative form of habituar.