habitan
noun
habitans
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pluralof habitan.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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However, I suspect you may be on the look-out for a visit from them in spring—au temps des sucres, as the habitans say.'
From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Elizabeth Hely Walshe
Cautious French habitans and traders thought it wiser to wait and see how long this standard of stripes and stars would wave over them.
From A Little Girl in Old Detroit by Amanda Minnie Douglas
The river was about three or four hundred yards away across the road, in front of them, and upon a raft slowly passing by were a couple of habitans singing.
From Crowded Out! and Other Sketches by S. Frances (Susie Frances) Harrison
Portions of the journey they made upon sledges driven by poor habitans dwelling in the far-apart villages or solitary farmhouses.
From Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. by Robert Neilson Stephens
The jabbering of the people, though, was not entirely strange to his ears; he had heard its like from the habitans of Canada.
From The Road to Paris by Robert Neilson Stephens
