visitable

American  

[viz-i-tuh-buhl] / ˈvɪz ɪ tə bəl /

adjective

1. capable of, suitable for, or worthy of being visited.

   a visitable island; a visitable museum.

2. liable or subject to official visitation.

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Other Word Forms

• revisitable
  adjective
• unvisitable
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of visitable

First recorded in 1595–1605; visit + -able

Example Sentences

Grimstad is a small, isolated, melancholy place, connected with nothing at all, visitable only by steamer.

From Henrik Ibsen by Gosse, Edmund

It was by this time easy to make a selection of guests, as every visitable house in Chumley had made its own individual effort towards entertaining the bride.

From Lady Cassandra by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

His rank lifted him above the small proprietors who lived within visitable distance of the Castle: they never attempted to associate with him.

From A Noble Life by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

I can't get there much before July first, but if there is plenty of snow in the mountains next winter the valley should be visitable then.

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose

She had pretensions to voice the county, just as my aunt undoubtedly set the tone of its doings, decided who was visitable, and just as Miss Churchill gave the political tone.

From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph