habitant

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: hab=it=ant

CIDE DICTIONARY

habitant, n. [F. habitant. See Habit, v. t.].

•  An inhabitant; a dweller.  Milton. Pope.  [1913 Webster]
•  An inhabitant or resident; -- a name applied to and denoting farmers of French descent or origin in Canada, especially in the Province of Quebec; -- usually in the plural.  [1913 Webster]

  "The habitants or cultivators of the soil."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

habitant, n.
1 an inhabitant.
2 a an early French settler in Canada or Louisiana. b a descendant of these settlers.

Etymology

F f. OF habiter f. L habitare inhabit (as HABIT)

ROGET THESAURUS

habitant

Inhabitant

N inhabitant, resident, residentiary, dweller, indweller, addressee, occupier, occupant, householder, lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant, settler, squatter, backwoodsman, colonist, islander, denizen, citizen, burgher, oppidan, cockney, cit, townsman, burgess, villager, cottager, cottier, cotter, compatriot, backsettler, boarder, hotel keeper, innkeeper, habitant, paying guest, planter, native, indigene, aborigines, autochthones, Englishman, John Bull, newcomer, aboriginal, American, Caledonian, Cambrian, Canadian, Canuck, downeaster, Scot, Scotchman, Hibernian, Irishman, Welshman, Uncle Sam, Yankee, Brother Jonathan, garrison, crew, population, people, colony, settlement, household, mir, indigenous, native, natal, autochthonal, autochthonous, British, English, American, Canadian, Irish, Scotch, Scottish, Welsh, domestic, domiciliated, domiciled, naturalized, vernacular, domesticated, domiciliary, in the occupation of, garrisoned by, occupied by.