Meanings
plural habitués · alternative habitue
- One who frequents a place.First known use 1818
A month ago the new smoking ban turned thousands of bar-room habitués into reluctant exiles from their usual corner seat.
3 more examples
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.
1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLCIndeed, many guests even became habitués in order to blaze a trail with reckless abandon seven days a week.
2011 September 28, Greg Simmons, “The most rock'n'roll hotel in the world? Los Angeles' Chateau Marmont”, in The GuardianThe live circuit's arenas and stadiums, its enormodomes, are flourishing. I am a habitué of them, particularly the O2 Arena.
2024 February 10, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “The age of the stage”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1 - A devotee.
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Late Latinhabituare“to habituate”
- Frenchhabitué
- Englishhabitué
Borrowed from French habitué, past participle of habituer (“to frequent”), from Late Latin habituare (“to habituate”), from habitus.
More words from French, Late Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 常客
- 常客 (chángkè)one who frequents a place, a regular
Czech štamgast
- štamgastone who frequents a place, a regular
Finnish kanta-asiakas, asiakas
- kanta-asiakasone who frequents a place, a regular
- asiakasone who frequents a place, a regular
French habitué, habituée
- habituéone who frequents a place, a regular
- habituéeone who frequents a place, a regular
German Stammgast, Stammgästin
- Stammgastone who frequents a place, a regular
- Stammgästinone who frequents a place, a regular
- Habituéone who frequents a place, a regular
Greek τακτικός, τακτική
- τακτικός (taktikós)one who frequents a place, a regular
- τακτική (taktikí)one who frequents a place, a regular
- τακτικό (taktikó)one who frequents a place, a regular
Japanese 常連
- 常連 (jōren)one who frequents a place, a regular
Portuguese frequentador
- frequentadorone who frequents a place, a regular
Russian завсегда́тай
- завсегда́тай (zavsegdátaj)one who frequents a place, a regular
Cite this entry
habitué. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/habitu%C3%A9
“habitué.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/habitu%C3%A9. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “habitué,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/habitu%C3%A9.
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