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visitant

[ viz-i-tuhnt ]

noun

  1. a temporary resident; visitor; guest.
  2. a visitor to a place of religious or sight-seeing interest; pilgrim.
  3. a being believed to come from the spirit world:

    a ghostly visitant.

  4. something, as a mood, feeling, emotion, etc., that overtakes a person from time to time:

    Melancholy is an occasional visitant to all.

  5. a migratory bird that has come to a place temporarily.


adjective

  1. visiting; paying a visit.

visitant

/ ˈvɪzɪtənt /

noun

  1. a supernatural being; ghost; apparition
  2. a visitor or guest, usually from far away
  3. a pilgrim or tourist
  4. Also calledvisitor a migratory bird that is present in a particular region only at certain times

    a summer visitant

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. archaic.
    paying a visit; visiting
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of visitant1

First recorded in 1590–1600, visitant is from the Latin word vīsitant- (stem of vīsitāns ). See visit, -ant
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Word History and Origins

Origin of visitant1

C16: from Latin vīsitāns going to see, from vīsitāre; see visit
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Synonym Study

See visitor.
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Example Sentences

Though generally a winter visitant, I have seen occasional stragglers in summer.

He lodged 30 years in one gloomy apartment, which was never lighted up with coal, candle, or the countenance of a visitant.

The Common Tern is a regular but not numerous spring and autumn visitant to the Islands, some remaining to breed.

To the boys imagination, the new-comer seemed a visitant from a fairy world.

He instantly detected the diabolical quality of his visitant, and was prepared.

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