Visitant
adj, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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 someone who visits wordnet
- 3 A spectre or ghost.
"Matsumura felt almost sure that his ghostly visitant had been none other than the Soul of the Mirror."
- 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."
- 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From French visitant, present participle of visiter.
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