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单词 habitant
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habitantadj.n.

/ˈhabɪtənt/
Forms: Also Middle English aby-, Middle English–1500s -aunt(e.
Etymology: < French habitant, < Latin habitānt-em, present participle of habitāre to dwell in, inhabit.
A. adj.
Inhabiting, indwelling.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > [adjective]
residentc1384
indwelling14..
lentc1400
resiant1433
mansionary1447
inhabitant1526
commorantc1534
demurrant1544
ledger1577
couchant1602
inhabitinga1617
residentiary1640
residenting1650
habitant1856
1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics II. xii. i. 274 A habitant spirit.
B. n.
1. One who dwells or resides in a place; a resident, inhabitant, indweller.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > [noun]
maneOE
wonnera1340
dwellera1382
livera1382
indweller1382
resiant1405
inhabitor1413
inhabitera1425
tenanta1425
abider1440
citizenc1450
inhabitant1462
resident1463
denizen1474
inhabitator?a1475
mansionarya1475
habitant1490
incolera1513
occupier?1542
land-occupier1576
residentiary1581
burgessa1586
incolant1596
consistorian1599
ledger1600
resider1632
residenter1644
habitator1646
endwellera1649
incolary1652
incolist1657
insetter1712
houser1871
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos Prol. 10 This present boke is necessarye to alle cytezens and habytaunts in townes.
c1500 Melusine (1895) 221 Thabytants of the Cyte.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 228/2 Habytaunt, a dweller.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 48 The habitans in vallye remayned.
1650 J. Howell Instr. Forren Travell (new ed.) App. 136 The various habitants of the Earth.
a1721 M. Prior 1st Hymn Callimachus i. 5 To Heaven's great habitants.
1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iv. vii. 235 The little city, of which he was now an habitant.
figurative.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 588 Sin there in power before, Once actual, now in body, and to dwell Habitual habitant . View more context for this quotation1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV cxxi. 63 O Love! no habitant of earth thou art.
2. (pronounced /abitɑ̃/; plural often as formerly in French habitans). A native of Canada (also of Louisiana) of French descent; one of the race of original French colonists, chiefly small farmers or yeomen.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of Canada > [noun] > French
French Canadian1698
coureur de bois1700
Canadien1727
Acadian French1741
Canadian French1755
habitant1789
Frenchy1829
Canuck1835
pea soup1866
pea-souper1930
Joe1963
1789 Quebec Gaz. 5 Feb. 4/1 My Brother Habitants will be..convinced of the expediency of the regulation.
1791 J. Long Voy. Indian Interpreter 167 The Canadians are particularly fond of dancing, from the seigneur to the habitant.
1836 F. B. Head 28 Oct. in Narrative (1839) vi. 130 The real interests of the French habitans of Lower Canada.
1839 Earl of Durham Rep. Brit. N. Amer. 19 Members of the family of some habitant.
1855 W. Irving Life Washington II. viii. 96 To ascertain the feelings of the habitans, or French yeomanry.
1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 682 A hamlet of cottages, occupied by Acadians, or what the planters call habitans, poor white, French Creoles.
1881 Harper's Mag. Nov. 823 Pirogue as the habitants call it.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 10 Apr. 6/2 From school Drummond became a clerk in a telegraph office at Bord-à-Plouffe, a little village on the Rivière des Prairies, where he was in the midst of habitants, lumbermen, and voyageurs.
1966 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 27 Aug. 4/3 As the old habitant joke had it, it's okay to t'row out de hank [sc. anchor], but suppose there's no rope on the hank?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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