visitant
a temporary resident; visitor; guest.
a visitor to a place of religious or sight-seeing interest; pilgrim.
a being believed to come from the spirit world: a ghostly visitant.
something, as a mood, feeling, emotion, etc., that overtakes a person from time to time: Melancholy is an occasional visitant to all.
a migratory bird that has come to a place temporarily.
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How to use visitant in a sentence
Though generally a winter visitant, I have seen occasional stragglers in summer.
Birds of Guernsey (1879) | Cecil SmithHe lodged 30 years in one gloomy apartment, which was never lighted up with coal, candle, or the countenance of a visitant.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellThe Common Tern is a regular but not numerous spring and autumn visitant to the Islands, some remaining to breed.
Birds of Guernsey (1879) | Cecil SmithTo the boys imagination, the new-comer seemed a visitant from a fairy world.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky | Modeste TchaikovskyHe instantly detected the diabolical quality of his visitant, and was prepared.
Legends and Tales | Bret Harte
British Dictionary definitions for visitant
/ (ˈvɪzɪtənt) /
a supernatural being; ghost; apparition
a visitor or guest, usually from far away
a pilgrim or tourist
Also called: visitor a migratory bird that is present in a particular region only at certain times: a summer visitant
archaic paying a visit; visiting
Origin of visitant
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