habitues

Bar's familiar faces

Habitués are regular frequenters of a particular place—a café, bar, theater, or club.

The word, borrowed from French, carries a slight formality and suggests devoted patronage: The habitués of the jazz club knew all the musicians by name.

A habitué belongs to a place in a way a mere customer does not.

patrons

regulars

Habitual visitors

aficionados · enthusiasts · goers · attendees · visitors · diners · barflies · clubgoers · theatergoers · connoisseurs

belonging

community

Collective of connected people

crowd · set · group · network · tribe · fellowship · society · collective · in-crowd · scene

routine

ritual

Ceremonial set of actions

pattern · regimen · schedule · tradition · fixture · mainstay · staple · constant · standby · institution

familiarity

accustomed

Adapted through habit

conversant · adapted · adjusted · acclimated · acclimatized · assimilated · naturalized · oriented · inured · versed

Categories
Opposites
frequency of attendance

habituesfirst-time visitors

Those experiencing somewhere initially

newcomers · drop-ins · passersby · transients · tourists

familiarity with place

habituesstrangers

People unknown to you

outsiders · newcomers · novices · neophytes · greenhorns

Phrases
Family

habitual, habitually, habituate, habituated, habituation, habituating, habitue, habituates

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