Habitue - Definition

Related Words: Audience, Buff, Caller, Company, Customer, Employer, Fan, Freeloader, Guest, Hound, Lover, Patron, Regular, Sojourner, Spectator, User

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A habitue or habitué is one who frequents a particular place, especially a place offering a specific pleasurable activity.

Function: noun

Etymology: French, from past participle of habituer to frequent, from Late Latin habituare to habituate, from Latin habitus Date: 1818

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

Related: habit

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