English

Alternative forms

• habitue

Noun

habitué ‎(plural habitués)

1. One who frequents a place; a denizen or regular

   A month ago the new smoking ban turned thousands of bar-room habitués into reluctant exiles from their usual corner seat.‎

   • 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, chapter III:

     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.

2. A devotee.

Translations

Related terms

• habit

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.bi.tɥe/

Verb

habitué m ‎(feminine singular habituée, masculine plural habitués, feminine plural habituées)

1. past participle of habituer

Italian

Noun

habitué m, f ‎(invariable)

1. regular (customer)

Spanish

Noun

habitué m ‎(plural habitués)

1. habitué; regular

Verb

habitué

1. First-person singular (yo) preterite indicative form of habituar.