habit
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
habit/ˈhabɪt/
▶noun
- 1 a settled or regular tendency or practice.
- 2 general shape or mode of growth, especially of a plant or a mineral.
- 3 a long, loose garment worn by a member of a religious order.
■ archaic clothing; attire.
- 4 archaic a person's health or constitution.
– phrases
break (or informal kick) the habit stop engaging in a habitual practice.
break (or informal kick) the habit stop engaging in a habitual practice.
– origin ME: from OFr. abit, habit, from L. habitus ‘condition, appearance’, from habere ‘have, consist of’.
'habit' also found in these Oxford entries:
apostlebird
- automatic pilot
- aversion therapy
- beaver
- bowerbird
- butcher-bird
- cachexia
- cappuccino
- chronic
- confirmed
- congenital
- costume
- cowl
- crabbed
- crib-biting
- cuckold
- cuckoo
- duiker
- enslave
- floccinaucinihilipilification
- fulmar
- groove
- habit-forming
- habitual
- habituate
- habitude
- hardened
- inculcate
- ingrain
- ingrained
- ingrown
- inveterate
- kick
- monogamy
- pander
- pangolin
- peculiarity
- petrel
- pilot bird
- quirk
- renounce
- riding habit
- scandent
- second nature
- shibboleth
- skipjack
- specialize
- springbok
- stop
