Habitan
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Habitan is a noun meaning Obsolete form of habitant.
Meaning
Obsolete form of habitant.
Example Sentences
General met an emissary […] sent […] to ascertain the feelings of the habitans or French yeomanry.
[…] not an habitan from Hamtramck to l'Anse Creuse had closed an eye the livelong night for the baying of the Huntsman's Hound […]
The paper offered by the Yankee speculator in exchange for colts, or cows, or grain, or butter, might please in New England or New York, but the habitan preferred silver dollars or gold doubloons, and would sell for nothing else.
Word Forms
- habitans
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include enhabitant, habitakle, habiting, citisen, habitance, residenter.
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