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visit
[ viz-it ]
verb (used with object)
- to go to and stay with (a person or family) or at (a place) for a short time for reasons of sociability, politeness, business, curiosity, etc.:
to visit a friend; to visit clients; to visit Paris.
- to stay with as a guest.
- to come or go to:
to visit a church for prayer.
- to go to for the purpose of official inspection or examination:
a general visiting his troops.
- to come to in order to comfort or aid:
to visit the sick.
- to come upon; assail; afflict:
The plague visited London in 1665.
- to cause trouble, suffering, etc., to come to:
to visit him with sorrows.
- to access, as a website.
- to inflict, as punishment, vengeance, etc. (often followed by on or upon ).
verb (used without object)
- to make a visit.
- to talk or chat casually:
to visit on the phone with a friend.
- to inflict punishment.
noun
- the act of or an instance of visiting:
a nice, long visit.
- a chat or talk:
We had a good visit on the way back from the grocery store.
- a call paid to a person, family, etc.
- a stay or sojourn as a guest.
- an official inspection or examination.
- the act of an officer of a belligerent nation in boarding a vessel in order to ascertain the nature of its cargo, its nationality, etc.:
the right of visit and search.
visit
/ ˈvɪzɪt /
verb
- to go or come to see (a person, place, etc)
- to stay with (someone) as a guest
- to go or come to (an institution, place, etc) for the purpose of inspecting or examining
- tr (of a disease, disaster, etc) to assail; afflict
- tr; foll by upon or on to inflict (punishment, etc)
the judge visited his full anger upon the defendant
- archaic.trusually foll bywith to afflict or plague (with punishment, etc)
- informal.often foll by with to chat or converse (with someone)
noun
- the act or an instance of visiting
- a stay as a guest
- a professional or official call
- a formal call for the purpose of inspection or examination
- international law the right of an officer of a belligerent state to stop and search neutral ships in war to verify their nationality and ascertain whether they carry contraband
the right of visit and search
- informal.a friendly talk or chat
Derived Forms
- ˈvisitable, adjective
Other Words From
- inter·visit verb (used without object)
- non·visit·ing adjective
- pre·visit noun verb
- re·visit verb noun
- un·visit·ed adjective
- un·visit·ing adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of visit1
Word History and Origins
Origin of visit1
Idioms and Phrases
see pay a call (visit) .Example Sentences
You will have your beloved father back sooner than you think, and you can visit and communicate with him all the while.
He hasn't bothered to visit Iguala, the place where the students were abducted and killed.
From his purview, our visit and interest had brought excitement to him and his peers.
On May 9, which Moscow commemorates as World War II “Victory Day,” Klaus paid a highly visible visit to the Russian Embassy.
Both Prados have enough magic that, after you visit them, the whole world feels like their gift shop for a few hours.
When the women came, he was preparing to go to the west side for his daily visit with Mrs. Pruitt.
M'Bongo, the great chief of this neighbourhood, paid a ceremonial visit to my husband.
Levee: a ceremonious visit received by a distinguished person in the morning.
I really ought to visit my California estates, and I have always wanted to see that part of America.
In the spring of 1868 he was taken by his mother for a visit to England, and there, in the same year, his sister was born.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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