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Settler along the St. Lawrence
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habitant
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Canada English) a member of ''habitation'' colony at Stadacona founded by Samuel de Champlain, where Quebec City now lies 2 (context archaic English) inhabitant, dweller.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Habitant \Hab"it*ant\ (h[a^]b"[i^]t*ant), n. [F. habitant. See Habit , v. t.] An inhabitant; a dweller. --Milton. --Pope. [F. pron. [.a]`b[-e]`t[aum]N"] An inhabitant or resident; -- a name applied to and denoting farmers of French descent or origin in ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from Old French habitant , abitant "inhabitant," from Latin habitantis "inhabitants," genitive plural of habitans , present participle of habitare "to inhabit, dwell" (see habitat ). Meaning "a Canadian of French descent" attested by 1789; the ...
Usage examples of habitant.
La veille du dimanche des brandons, les habitants des campagnes se rendent le soir dans les champs et se promenent sous les arbres avec des falots en chantant quelque vieille invocation.
Le lieutenant-colonel Thomas se fit guider dans la foret par des habitants.
We made land in a longboat and gave offering to Saint Lier and Saint Vri-ente, then sent out parties to search for habitants.
Les habitants de Carnac attribuent a ces pierres une origine tres differente et beaucoup plus merveilleuse.
However, the American rovers take no permanent occupation of the different forts on the falls of the Richelieu River, preferring rather to overrun the parishes, dispatching secret spies and waiting for the habitants to rally.
Biarritz, puis de la temperature, de la plage, des villas et de leurs habitants, on passa aux casinos.
Naturally, just as Gaby had begun to recognize the habitants of the salesrooms, they had begun to take notice of her.
Yet as Gavras' parasol bearers rode past the assembled in habitants of Aptos, they bowed low to give honor to the Em peror.
Every habitat in space has its nightwalkers, invisible habitants who cannot afford to remain in space but who evade being returned to Earth.
Some public relations “expert” had decided that habitants would feel more at home if surrounded by place names familiar from dirtside.
The habitants have gotten together and demand access to Holy Lake till the drought’s over.
However, they fear the habitants will refuse, will take the proposal as a deadly threat.
Instead of hecatombs of fat oxen sacrificed by the tribes of a wealthy city to their tutelar deity the emperor complains that he found only a single goose, provided at the expense of a priest, the pale and solitary in habitant of this decayed temple.
On my own, consorting with habitants, I picked up French of a sort.