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noun
1.
an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary: the habit of looking both ways before crossing the street.
2.
customary practice or use: Daily bathing is an American habit.
3.
a particular practice, custom, or usage: the habit of shaking hands.
4.
a dominant or regular disposition or tendency; prevailing character or quality: She has a habit of looking at the bright side of things.
5.
EXPANDaddiction, especially to narcotics (often preceded by the).
6.
mental character or disposition: a habit of mind.
7.
characteristic bodily or physical condition.
8.
the characteristic form, aspect, mode of growth, etc., of an organism: a twining habit.
9.
the characteristic crystalline form of a mineral.
10.
garb of a particular rank, profession, religious order, etc.: a monk's habit.
11.
COLLAPSEthe attire worn by a rider of a saddle horse.
verb (used with object)
12.
to clothe; array.
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Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English < Latin habitus state, style, practice, equivalent to habi- (variant stem of habēre to have) + -tus verbal noun suffix; replacing Middle English abit < Old French
1175–1225; Middle English < Latin habitus state, style, practice, equivalent to habi- (variant stem of habēre to have) + -tus verbal noun suffix; replacing Middle English abit < Old French
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verb (used with object)
1.
Archaic. to dwell in.
verb (used without object)
2.
Obsolete. to dwell.
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Word Origin & History
habit
early 13c., from O.Fr. habit, from L. habitus "condition, demeanor, appearance, dress," originally pp. of habere "to have, to hold, possess," from PIE base *ghabh- "to seize, take, hold, have, give, receive" (cf. Skt. gabhasti- "hand, forearm;" O.Ir. gaibim "I take, hold, I have," gabal "act of taking;"
EXPANDLith. gabana "armful," gabenti "to remove;" Goth. gabei "riches;" O.E. giefan, O.N. gefa "to give"). Base sense probably "to hold," which can be either in offering or in taking. Applied in Latin to both inner and outer states of being, and taken over in both sense by English, though meaning of "dress" is now restricted to monks and nuns. Drug sense is from 1887. Habitual first attested 1520s.
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Medical Dictionary
habit hab·it (hāb'ĭt)
n.
A recurrent, often unconscious, pattern of behavior that is acquired through frequent repetition.
Physical constitution.
An addiction, especially to a narcotic drug.
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Science Dictionary
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Slang Dictionary
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