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Visitant

//ˈvɪzɪtənt// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Visiting.

    "1677, Thomas d’Urfey, Madam Fickle, or, The Witty False One, London: James Magnes & Richard Bentley, Act III, Scene 2, p. 33, Now the plots unravell’d: I begin to have a knowledge of the visitant Kinsman that us’d to molest us."

Noun
  1. 1
    One who visits; a guest; a visitor.

    "1612-13, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi Act I, Scene III, Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness, / That is not kept in chains and close-pent rooms, / But in fair lightsome lodgings, and is girt / With the wild noise of prattling visitants, / Which makes it lunatic beyond all cure."

  2. 2
    someone who visits wordnet
  3. 3
    A spectre or ghost.

    "Matsumura felt almost sure that his ghostly visitant had been none other than the Soul of the Mirror."

  4. 4
    A migratory bird that makes a temporary stop somewhere.

    "Reëstablishment of such facilities would probably soon draw occasional visitants in special need of rest in their desert flights."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French visitant, present participle of visiter.

Etymology 2

From French visitant, present participle of visiter.

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