habitué

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See also: habitue, habitúe, and Habitué

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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habitué (plural habitués)

  1. 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.
  2. A devotee.
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French

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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habitué m (plural habitués)

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

Descendants

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  • English: habitué
  • German: Habitué

Participle

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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 ?
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Further reading

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Italian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French habitué. Doublet of abituato.

Noun

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habitué m or f by sense (invariable)

  1. regular (customer)

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /abiˈtwe/ [a.β̞iˈt̪we]
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Syllabification: ha‧bi‧tué

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from French habitué.

Noun

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habitué m (plural habitués)

  1. habitué; regular

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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habitué

  1. first-person singular preterite indicative of habituar