[ˈhabɪt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up
(e.g: he has an annoying habit of interrupting me)

- a long, loose garment worn by a member of a religious order
(e.g: nuns in long brown habits, black veils, and sandals)

- a person's health or constitution
(e.g: a victim to a consumptive habit)


Phrases:
- force of habit

Origin:
Middle English: from Old French abit, habit, from Latin habitus ‘condition, appearance’, from habere ‘have, consist of’. The term originally meant ‘dress, attire’, later coming to denote physical or mental constitution

[ˈhabɪt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- be dressed or clothed
(e.g: a boy habited as a serving lad)


Phrases:
- force of habit

Origin:
Middle English: from Old French abit, habit, from Latin habitus ‘condition, appearance’, from habere ‘have, consist of’. The term originally meant ‘dress, attire’, later coming to denote physical or mental constitution