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habitué

US/həˈbɪt͡ʃuˌeɪ/

habitué noun: one who frequents a place.

Noun

habitué (plural habitués)

  1. One who frequents a place.
    • A month ago the new smoking ban turned thousands of bar-room habitués into reluctant exiles from their usual corner seat.
    • 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...1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    denizen, regular
  2. A devotee.

Examples of habitué in a sentence

  • 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:
  • 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....

Synonyms of habitué

Forms of habitué

pluralhabitués
alternative formhabitue

Origin of habitué

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

Questions about habitué

What does habitué mean?
Habitué means one who frequents a place.
How do you use habitué in a sentence?
Indeed, many guests even became habitués in order to blaze a trail with reckless abandon seven days a week.
What part of speech is habitué?
Habitué is a noun.
How do you pronounce habitué?
Habitué is pronounced /həˈbɪt͡ʃuˌeɪ/ (US).
What is the plural of habitué?
The plural of habitué is habitués.

Words near habitué in the dictionary

  1. habituee
  2. habituees
  3. habitues
  4. habitus
  5. habituses
  6. habitué
  7. habitués
  8. hable
  9. Hables
  10. hablon
  11. habnab

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