- an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary: the habit of looking both ways before crossing the street.
- customary practice or use: Daily bathing is an American habit.
- a particular practice, custom, or usage: the habit of shaking hands.
- a dominant or regular disposition or tendency; prevailing character or quality: She has a habit of looking at the bright side of things.
- addiction, especially to narcotics.
- mental character or disposition: a habit of mind.
- characteristic bodily or physical condition.
- the characteristic form, aspect, mode of growth, etc., of an organism: a twining habit.
- the characteristic crystalline form of a mineral.
- garb of a particular rank, profession, religious order, etc.: a monk's habit.
- the attire worn by a rider of a saddle horse.
- See entry at old habits die hard.
- to dwell in.
- to dwell.
- a tendency or disposition to act in a particular way
- established custom, usual practice, etc
- a learned behavioural response that has become associated with a particular situation, esp one frequently repeated
- mental disposition or attitude
- a practice or substance to which a person is addicted
- the state of being dependent on something, esp a drug
- the method of growth, type of existence, behaviour, or general appearance of a plant or animal
- the customary apparel of a particular occupation, rank, etc, now esp the costume of a nun or monk
- a woman's riding dress
- crystallog short for crystal habit
