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English[edit | edit source]
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Etymology 1[edit | edit source]
From Middle English < Old French habit < Latin habitus (“‘condition, bearing, state, appearance, dress, attire’”) < habeō (“‘I have, hold, keep’”); see have.
Noun[edit | edit source]
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Habit ({{{1}}})
- An action done on a regular basis.
- It’s become a habit of mine to have a cup of coffee after dinner.
- An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness.
- By force of habit, he dressed for work even though it was holiday.
- A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns.
- It’s interesting how Catholic and Buddhist monks both wear habits.
- A piece of clothing worn uniformly for a specific activity.
- The new riding habits of the team looked smashing!.
- Customary manner of dress.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- … it was always my fate to choose for the worse, so I did here; for having money in my pocket and good clothes upon my back, I would always go on board in the habit of a gentleman; and so I neither had any business in the ship, or learned to do any.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- An addiction.
- He has a 10-cigar habit.
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Etymology 2[edit | edit source]
From Middle English habiten < Old French habiter < Latin habitāre, present active infinitive of habitō, frequentative of habeō (“‘I have, hold, keep’”); see have.
Verb[edit | edit source]
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to Habit (third-person singular simple present -, present participle -, simple past and past participle -)
- To clothe.
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External links[edit | edit source]
- Habit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- Habit in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
French[edit | edit source]
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Noun[edit | edit source]
Habit m. (plural Habits)
- article of clothing, garment, dress-coat, evening dress, tails, full dress
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Polish[edit | edit source]
Noun[edit | edit source]
- habit (clothing worn by monks and nuns)
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