Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

habitan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: habi-tan
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Obsolete form of habitant.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"General met an emissary […] sent […] to ascertain the feelings of the habitans or French yeomanry."
"The paper offered by the Yankee speculator in exchange for colts, or cows, or grain, or butter, might please in New England or New York, but the habitan preferred silver dollars or gold doubloons, and would sell for nothing else."
"[…] not an habitan from Hamtramck to l'Anse Creuse had closed an eye the livelong night for the baying of the Huntsman's Hound […]"

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

habitans (plural)

Questions

What does habitan mean?: Obsolete form of habitant.

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