habitan

English

Noun

habitan (plural habitans)

1. Obsolete form of habitant.
   • 1855–1859, Washington Irving, The Life of George Washington:

     General met an emissary […] sent […] to ascertain the feelings of the habitans or French yeomanry.

   • 1862, The Bankers' magazine: Volume 22, page 347:

     The paper offered by the Yankee speculator in exchange for colts, or cows, or grain, or butter, might please in New England or New York, but the habitan preferred silver dollars or gold doubloons, and would sell for nothing else.

   • 1901, Henrietta Channing Dana Skinner, Heart and soul:

     […] not an habitan from Hamtramck to l'Anse Creuse had closed an eye the livelong night for the baying of the Huntsman's Hound […]

References

• “habitan”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• abthain

Galician

Verb

habitan

1. third-person plural present indicative of habitar

Spanish

Verb

habitan

1. third-person plural present indicative of habitar