visitor

[ viz-i-ter ]

/ ˈvɪz ɪ tər /

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noun

a person who visits, as for reasons of friendship, business, duty, travel, or the like.

Nearby words

visiting card, visiting fireman, visiting nurse, visiting professor, visiting teacher, visitor, visitor centre, visitor's passport, visitorial, vislinsky zaliv, visna

Origin of visitor

1400–50; late Middle English visitour < Anglo-French; Old French visiteor < Late Latin vīsitātor, equivalent to Latin vīsitā(re) to visit + -tor -tor

SYNONYMS FOR visitor

Visitor, caller, guest, visitant are terms for a person who comes to spend time with or stay with others, or in a place. A visitor often stays some time, for social pleasure, for business, sightseeing, etc.: a visitor at our neighbor's house. A caller comes for a brief (usually) formal visit: The caller merely left her card. A guest is anyone receiving hospitality, and the word has been extended to include anyone who pays for meals and lodging: a welcome guest; a hotel guest. Visitant applies especially to a migratory bird or to a supernatural being: a warbler as a visitant.

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Related forms

pre·vis·i·tor, noun

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Examples from the Web for visitor

Most of it is taken up by a graphic inviting the visitor to participate in the 2016 online presidential straw poll.
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One visitor, an elderly woman named Mrs. Lacey, relays an anecdote about her American son-in-law.
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“We know that Hong Kong people call us locusts,” said Mr. Sun, a visitor from Guangdong province.
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Now, we talk about reducing the stigma of this disease—yet we've treated a visitor living with it as a threat.
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And so the visitor, feeling a little self-conscious, starts examining individual images.
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The latter had been reading a new publication, which she laid down at the voice of the butler announcing a visitor.
Newton Forster|Captain Frederick Marryat
She put the facts, so evident to herself, before her visitor and asked her to look at them.
Tante|Anne Douglas Sedgwick
The visitor called early in the morning of the following day, and found Addie bent over her washtubs in the back yard.
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Later in the forenoon, Mrs. Ellmother was called to the door by the arrival of a visitor.
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Every visitor should take the trail into the depths of Bryce Canyon, either on foot or horseback.
Zion National Park|Various

British Dictionary definitions for visitor

visitor

/ (ˈvɪzɪtə) /

noun

a person who pays a visit; caller, guest, tourist, etc

another name for visitant (def. 4)

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