habitué
/həˈbɪt͡ʃuˌeɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.25 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A devotee.
Example Sentences
- "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 cheerful glass."
- "Indeed, many guests even became habitués in order to blaze a trail with reckless abandon seven days a week."
- "The live circuit's arenas and stadiums, its enormodomes, are flourishing. I am a habitué of them, particularly the O2 Arena."
Etymology
Borrowed from French habitué, past participle of habituer (“to frequent”), from Late Latin habituare (“to habituate”), from habitus.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: habitué, habituare
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /həˈbɪt͡ʃuˌeɪ/