单词 | habitant |
释义 | habitantadj.n. A. adj. Inhabiting, indwelling. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.n.1490 |
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