[viz-i-tuh
nt] 
| 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. |
| 6. | visiting; paying a visit. |
| vis·i·tant (vĭz'ĭ-tənt) n.
[Latin visitāns, visitant-, present participle of visitāre, to go to see; see visit.] |