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habitué

noun
/həˈbɪt͡ʃuˌeɪ/US

Etymology

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

  1. derived from habituare
  2. borrowed from habitué

Definitions

  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.
    • Indeed, many guests even became habitués in order to blaze a trail with reckless abandon seven days a week.

  2. A devotee.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for habitué. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA