habitué

• habitue

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /həˈbɪt͡ʃuˌeɪ/

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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:

     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.

• habit

• Thibeau

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /a.bi.tɥe/, /a.bi.ty.e/

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habitué m (plural habitués)

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

• → English: habitué
• → German: Habitué

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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• “habitué”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from French habitué. Doublet of abituato.

habitué m or f by sense (invariable)

1. regular (customer)

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

Borrowed from French habitué.

habitué m (plural habitués)

1. habitué; regular

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

habitué

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of habituar