Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who frequents a particular place, especially a place offering a specific pleasurable activity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A habitual frequenter of any place, especially one of amusement, recreation, and the like: as, an habitué of the billiard-room.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who habitually frequents a place.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
frequents a place; adenizen orregular - noun A
devotee .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a regular patron
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French, from past participle of habituer, to accustom, frequent, from Old French, from Late Latin habituārī, to be in a condition; see habituate.]
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Borrowing from French habitué past participle of habituer ("to frequent"), from Late Latin habituare ("to habituate"), from Latin habitus. Date: 1818
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