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habitué en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /həˈbɪt͡ʃuˌeɪ/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. One who frequents a place.
   • 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. 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
   • Indeed, many guests even became habitués in order to blaze a trail with reckless abandon seven days a week. 2011 September 28, Greg Simmons, “The most rock'n'roll hotel in the world? Los Angeles' Chateau Marmont”, in The Guardian:
   • A month ago the new smoking ban turned thousands of bar-room habitués into reluctant exiles from their usual corner seat.
   • The live circuit's arenas and stadiums, its enormodomes, are flourishing. I am a habitué of them, particularly the O2 Arena. 2024 February 10, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “The age of the stage”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:
2. A devotee.

Forms

Relateds

habit · habituated · habitation · inhabitant

Synonyms

denizen · regular

Translations (15)

ja 常連 (one who frequents a place, a regular) · pt frequentador (one who frequents a place, a regular) · cmn 常客 (one who frequents a place, a regular) · el τακτικό (one who frequents a place, a regular) · fi asiakas (one who frequents a place, a regular) · el τακτική (one who frequents a place, a regular) · fi kanta-asiakas (one who frequents a place, a regular) · de Habitué (one who frequents a place, a regular) · el τακτικός (one who frequents a place, a regular) · de Stammgast (one who frequents a place, a regular) · fr habitué (one who frequents a place, a regular) · cs štamgast (one who frequents a place, a regular) · ru завсегда́тай (one who frequents a place, a regular) · de Stammgästin (one who frequents a place, a regular) · fr habituée (one who frequents a place, a regular)