habitué

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See also: habitue, habitúe, and Habitué

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

habitué (plural habitués)

  1. One who frequents a place.
    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:
      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.

Translations

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

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

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/
  • 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
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