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visit /vizˈit/ transitive verb- To pay a call upon, or to be in the habit of doing so
- To go to for sight-seeing, recreation, or religious purposes
- To go to stay with
- To make a stay in, eg of migratory birds
- (of a professional or his or her client, patient, etc) to go to see professionally
- To examine or inspect (a place), esp officially
- To come to, or to go to see, in order to give comfort or aid
- To go to with intention of injuring
- To inflict (punishment, etc) (with on)
- To punish (a person) (with with; archaic)
- To punish (eg wrongdoing) (archaic)
- (of an idea) to take temporary hold on the mind of
- To afflict or trouble, eg with disease (archaic)
intransitive verb- To be in the habit of seeing or meeting each other at home
- To make a visit or visits
noun- An act of visiting
- A short stay
- A sightseeing excursion
- An official or a professional call
- A chat (N Am inf)
ORIGIN: Fr visiter, from L vīsitāre, frequentative of vīsere to go to see, visit, from vidēre to see visˈitable adjective - Subject to official visitation
- Attractive to visitors
visˈitant adjective Paying visits, visiting noun- A person who visits
- A person who is a guest in the house of another
- A supernatural visitor
- A migratory bird
- (with cap) one of an order of nuns founded by St Francis de Sales in 1610, also called Salesians, Order (or Nuns) of the Visitation
visitāˈtion noun - The act of visiting
- A long and wearisome visit
- The right of a divorced parent to have access to a child or children who live with a former partner (US)
- A formal or official visit by a superior, esp ecclesiastical
- An examination by authority
- The act of a naval commander in boarding a merchant vessel of another state to ascertain her character and object
- A visit of God, or of a good (or evil) supernatural being
- A dispensation of divine favour or displeasure
- A sore affliction
- The operation of a destructive power, or an instance of it
- An influence acting on the mind
- An unusual and extensive influx of a species of animals into a region
- (with cap) a Christian festival to commemorate the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth, observed by the Roman Catholic Church on 31 May
visitāˈtional or visˈitātive adjective visˈitātor noun An official visitor visitatōˈrial adjective visiteeˈ noun The person to whom a visit is paid visˈiting noun - The act, or an instance, of paying a visit
- A visitation, in the senses of divine dispensation, heavy affliction, or influence operating on the mind
adjective- That visits, often opp to resident
- Relating to visiting
visˈitor noun - (now rarely visˈiter; fem visˈitress) a person who visits, calls on, or makes a stay with another person
- A person authorized to visit for purposes of inspection or supervision
- A migratory bird
visitōˈrial adjective visˈiting-book noun - A book recording the names of persons who have called or are to be called on
- A visitors' book (Thackeray)
visiting card noun A small card bearing the name and address, or title, left in paying visits, and sometimes (esp formerly) sent as an act of courtesy or in token of sympathy visˈiting-day noun A day on which one is at home and ready to receive callers visiting fireman noun An important visitor who is to be lavishly entertained (US informal) visiting hours plural noun The period during which hospital patients, etc are permitted to receive visitors visiting professor noun Someone (esp a professor from another university) who is invited to teach in a university for a certain period visitor general noun (historical) A personal representative of the King of Spain appointed to investigate affairs, esp in Spanish America visitors' book noun A book in which visitors write their names and sometimes comments visitors' passport noun (also British Visitors' Passport) a simplified form of passport, discontinued in 1995, valid for one year for visits not exceeding three months to certain countries visitation of the sick An Anglican form of service for use by clergy visiting the sick visit with (N American) - To visit
- To be a guest with
- To chat with
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