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View synonyms for visitor

visitor

[ viz-i-ter ]

noun

  1. a person who visits, as for reasons of friendship, business, duty, travel, or the like.


visitor

/ ˈvɪzɪtə /

noun

  1. a person who pays a visit; caller, guest, tourist, etc
  2. another name for visitant


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Other Words From

  • pre·visi·tor noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of visitor1

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English visitour, from Anglo-French; Old French visiteor, from Late Latin vīsitātor, equivalent to Latin vīsitā(re) “to go to see, visit” ( visit ) + -tor -tor

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Synonym Study

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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Example Sentences

Most of it is taken up by a graphic inviting the visitor to participate in the 2016 online presidential straw poll.

The author of two books and dozens of articles about grizzlies, he is a grequent visitor in high school and college classrooms.

One visitor, an elderly woman named Mrs. Lacey, relays an anecdote about her American son-in-law.

“We know that Hong Kong people call us locusts,” said Mr. Sun, a visitor from Guangdong province.

Now, we talk about reducing the stigma of this disease—yet we've treated a visitor living with it as a threat.

They came forward, a little timidly, and their latest visitor held out a hand to each.

No notice being taken of the taps, the unseen visitor, after a short lapse, ventured to open the door and peep in.

And he was not slow to notice that his visitor looked fatter each time he saw him.

As one visitor after another arrived, the little house became crowded.

Just as she was going out to offer refreshments, another visitor arrived.

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