visitant
Use Visitant in a sentence
ɪ noun
1.
a temporary resident; visitor; guest.
2.
a visitor to a place of religious or sight-seeing interest; pilgrim.
3.
a being believed to come from the spirit world: a ghostly visitant.
4.
something, as a mood, feeling, emotion, etc., that overtakes a person from time to time: Melancholy is an occasional visitant to all.
5.
a migratory bird that has come to a place temporarily.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a supernatural being; ghost; apparition |
| 2. | a visitor or guest, usually from far away |
| 3. | a pilgrim or tourist |
| 4. | Also called: visitor a migratory bird that is present in a particular region only at certain times: a summer visitant |
| —adj | |
| 5. | archaic paying a visit; visiting |
| [C16: from Latin vīsitāns going to see, from vīsitāre; see | |
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Example sentences
The bald eagle is a winter visitant to the area that can frequently be seen in the vicinity of the reservoir dam.
He and the visitant approach one another, in a bowing posture.
But the general sentiment was opposed to the idea, that a third visitant had made application at the door of the deserted house.
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