visit /vizˈit/

1. To pay a call upon, or to be in the habit of doing so
2. To go to for sight-seeing, recreation, or religious purposes
3. To go to stay with
4. To make a stay in, eg of migratory birds
5. (of a professional or his or her client, patient, etc) to go to see professionally
6. To examine or inspect (a place), esp officially
7. To come to, or to go to see, in order to give comfort or aid
8. To go to with intention of injuring
9. To inflict (punishment, etc) (with on)
10. To punish (a person) (with with; archaic)
11. To punish (eg wrongdoing) (archaic)
12. (of an idea) to take temporary hold on the mind of
13. To afflict or trouble, eg with disease (archaic)

1. To be in the habit of seeing or meeting each other at home
2. To make a visit or visits

1. An act of visiting
2. A short stay
3. A sightseeing excursion
4. An official or a professional call
5. A chat (N Am inf)

visˈitable adjective

1. Subject to official visitation
2. Attractive to visitors

visˈitant adjective

Paying visits, visiting

1. A person who visits
2. A person who is a guest in the house of another
3. A supernatural visitor
4. A migratory bird
5. (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

1. The act of visiting
2. A long and wearisome visit
3. The right of a divorced parent to have access to a child or children who live with a former partner (US)
4. A formal or official visit by a superior, esp ecclesiastical
5. An examination by authority
6. The act of a naval commander in boarding a merchant vessel of another state to ascertain her character and object
7. A visit of God, or of a good (or evil) supernatural being
8. A dispensation of divine favour or displeasure
9. A sore affliction
10. The operation of a destructive power, or an instance of it
11. An influence acting on the mind
12. An unusual and extensive influx of a species of animals into a region
13. (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

1. The act, or an instance, of paying a visit
2. A visitation, in the senses of divine dispensation, heavy affliction, or influence operating on the mind

1. That visits, often opp to resident
2. Relating to visiting

visˈitor noun

1. (now rarely visˈiter; fem visˈitress) a person who visits, calls on, or makes a stay with another person
2. A person authorized to visit for purposes of inspection or supervision
3. A migratory bird

visitōˈrial adjective

visˈiting-book noun

1. A book recording the names of persons who have called or are to be called on
2. 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

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