visitor
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ɪ noun
a person who visits, as for reasons of friendship, business, duty, travel, or the like.
Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English visitour < Anglo-French; Old French visiteor < Late Latin vīsitātor, equivalent to Latin vīsitā(re) to visit + -tor -tor
1400–50; late Middle English visitour < Anglo-French; Old French visiteor < Late Latin vīsitātor, equivalent to Latin vīsitā(re) to visit + -tor -tor
Related forms
pre·vis·i·tor, noun
Synonyms
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.
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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| —n | |
| 1. | a person who pays a visit; caller, guest, tourist, etc |
| 2. | another name for visitant |
| visi'torial | |
| —adj | |
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Example sentences
The pine-and-juniper campground is near the national monument's visitor center.
She looks up with a smile from her laptop and speech-therapy textbook to summon a visitor into her room.
To a visitor, bread can seem unbelievably cheap, because it is subsidized by the government.
As a result, one scholarly visitor reported being repelled by her venality.
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