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habitan

habitan is the obsolete form of habitant.

Meaning of habitant

Noun (1)

habitant (plural habitants)

  1. (Canada) A member of a habitation colony at Stadacona founded by Samuel de Champlain, where Quebec City now lies.

Noun (2)

habitant (plural habitants)

  1. (archaic) Synonym of inhabitant /dweller.
    • The last dark branches which intercepted his view gave way, and he saw a heap of blackened ruins. Scarcely aware of his own actions, he sprang from his horse. A single glance convinced him it could harbour no human habitant.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 288–289
    Synonyms:
    inhabitant /dweller

Forms of habitan

pluralhabitans

Questions about habitan

What is habitan the obsolete form of?
Habitan is the obsolete form of habitant.

Words near habitan in the dictionary

  1. habitacle
  2. habitacles
  3. habitakle
  4. habitakles
  5. habitally
  6. habitan
  7. habitance
  8. habitances
  9. habitancies
  10. habitancy
  11. habitans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: habitan (page history and authors); habitant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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