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# habit

«habit» in Mova's school dictionary: **something you do often and regularly, often without…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a habit, habits); adjective habitual

### meaning for a pupil

1) A habit is something you do often and regularly, often without thinking about it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/habit/#m1)

2) A good habit helps you, like brushing your teeth; a bad habit harms you or annoys others, like biting your nails. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/habit/#m2)

3) A habit is also the long robe worn by a nun or a monk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/habit/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In health and hygiene lessons good habits are taught: washing hands, brushing teeth twice a day, eating vegetables, getting enough sleep. In lessons about growing up, a habit takes time to make or to break, and repeating something every day turns it into a habit. In stories a character's habits show their personality. Phrases: good habit, bad habit, break a habit, get into the habit of, out of habit, force of habit.

### examples

- Brushing your teeth every night is a good habit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/habit/#x1)
- Biting your nails is a bad habit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/habit/#x2)
- I'm trying to get into the habit of reading every day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/habit/#x3)
- It's hard to break a habit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/habit/#x4)
- Out of habit, he looked both ways before crossing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/habit/#x5)
- The nun wore a long black habit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/habit/#x6)
- Grandpa has a habit of humming while he cooks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/habit/#x7)
- Healthy habits help you grow strong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/habit/#x8)
- He had one very peculiar habit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/habit/#x9)

### note

Countable: a habit, habits. «Get into the habit of» + -ing (get into the habit of reading). Do not confuse with «habitat» (the natural home of an animal or plant).

### In the corpora

- [The easiest way never to have a hard habit is never to start one.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/4/)
- [Many people pay every month for a gym and then stop going, because starting a habit is easy and keeping it is hard.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/11/)
- [Bots have no feelings to hurt, but polite asking keeps your own good habits strong.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/15/)
- [That is a friendly habit, not a real judgement of your question.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily/1/)
- [Saying "Great question!" is a habit built into many bots, not a real opinion of your question.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «habit» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/habit/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.