habitant B2 Topic:Space, Position & Direction US /abitɑ̃/ See IPA manual Freq #324964 Meanings 1 noun A person who lives in a particular place. The habitants of the village welcomed the travellers. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · a person who lives in a... inhabitantdwellerdenizen Word family Forms habitants Etymology AI details From Middle English habytaunt, from Middle French habitant. By surface analysis, habit (“to inhabit”) + -ant. habytaunt Middle English habitant Middle French View etymology graph -> Topics Space, Position & Direction External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # habitant **Type:** Word **Level:** B2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /abitɑ̃/ **Frequency rank:** 324964 ## Meanings 1. A person who lives in a particular place. ## Examples - The habitants of the village welcomed the travellers. ## Roots and Affixes - Root: habytaunt - Root: habitant ## Etymology From Middle English habytaunt, from Middle French habitant. By surface analysis, habit (“to inhabit”) + -ant. ## AI Etymology Habitant comes from Middle English habytaunt, from Middle French habitant. By surface analysis, habit (“to inhabit”) + -ant. The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern nominal form is built from the named base and affix. In current use, the main sense is “A person who lives in a particular place”. ## Topics - Space, Position & Direction markdown