Noun: habit
| Singular | habit |
| Plural | habits |
Sample Sentences
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It’s become a habit of mine to have a cup of coffee after dinner.
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I really need to get into the habit of writing down what I spend.
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a man of very shy, retired habits [1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC:]
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Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found. [2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:]
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By force of habit, he dressed for work even though it was holiday.
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kick the habit
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He has a 10-cigar habit.
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Another white boy band / They're happy on demand / Everything is planned / Until the singer gets a habit [2000, “I'm With Stupid”, in WYSIWYG, performed by Chumbawamba:]
Nouns inflected like habit
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English habit, from Latin habitus (“condition, bearing, state, appearance, dress, attire”), from habeō (“to have, hold, keep”). Distantly related to gift. Replaced Middle English abit, from Old French abit, itself from the same Latin source. Displaced native Old English þēaw, wuna, ġewuna, and sidu. See: Middle English Nouns '
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Verbs referencing "habit"
English Nouns
gift.