What does "visitor" mean?
Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.
Visitor
/ˈvɪzɪtə/ noun
noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.
- Grammar: visitor is listed as noun.
- Nearest alternatives: visitant, aficionado, arrival, attendee.
- Useful contrasts: brummy, local player, local resident.
- Usage evidence: The visitor sat across from me.
How to use "visitor"
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.
"He ventured to raise his eyes again, and found his supernatural visitor confronting him in an erect attitude, with its chain wound over and about its arm."
- 2 someone who visits wordnet
- 3 Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.
"Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted."
- 4 Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home. plural-normally
"But, somewhat against the run of play, Craddock fired the visitors ahead, volleying a low effort beyond Simon Mignolet after Sunderland twice failed to clear attempted crosses from Stephen Hunt."
- 5 A person authorized to visit an institution to see that it is being managed properly.
"As to eleemoſynary corporations, by the dotation the founder and his heirs are of common right the legal viſitors, to ſee that that property is rightly employed, which would otherwiſe have deſcended to the viſitor himſelf: […]"
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- 6 An extraterrestrial being on Earth. specifically
"5: Of course there is always the remote (I hope) possibility that instant panic will prompt us to send a hailstorm of nuclear warheads out upon the visitor."
- 7 An object which lands or passes by Earth or its orbit.
"Within a few months, another small meteoric mass has been added to the list of those extra-terrestrial bodies which have fallen within the limits of Tennessee. This recent visitor is a stone, weighing, when first obtained, three pounds."
- 8 A head or overseer of an institution such as a college (in which case, equivalent to the university's chancellor) or cathedral or hospital, who resolves disputes, gives ceremonial speeches, etc. British
- 9 The object in the visitor pattern that performs an operation on the elements of a structure one by one.
Antonyms
Example
"The visitor sat across from me."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "visitor"?
Common synonyms include: visitant, aficionado, arrival, attendee, attender, audience.
How do you use "visitor" in a sentence?
The visitor sat across from me.
How do you pronounce "visitor"?
Pronounced /ˈvɪzɪtə/.
Etymology
Partly from Middle English visiter, visitere, equivalent to visit + -er; and partly from Middle English visitour, from Anglo-Norman visitour, from Old French visetëor. By surface analysis, visit + -or.