habitué
English edit
Alternative forms edit
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 (Southern England) (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 […], 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.
- A devotee.
Related terms edit
Translations edit
one who frequents a place, a regular
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devotee — see devotee
Anagrams edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
habitué m (plural habitués)
Descendants edit
Participle edit
habitué (feminine habituée, masculine plural habitués, feminine plural habituées)
- 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 ?
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Further reading edit
- “habitué”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French habitué. Doublet of abituato.
Noun edit
habitué m or f by sense (invariable)
- regular (customer)
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
habitué m (plural habitués)
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
habitué