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.

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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 formspre·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.
I Say No|Wilkie Collins
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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Word Origin and History for visitor

visitor

early 15c., from visit + -or. Sports sense is from 1900.

visitor

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