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visit
[ viz-it ]
verb (used with object)
- to go to and stay with (a person or family) or at (a place) for a short time for reasons of sociability, politeness, business, curiosity, etc.:
to visit a friend; to visit clients; to visit Paris.
- to stay with as a guest.
- to come or go to:
to visit a church for prayer.
- to go to for the purpose of official inspection or examination:
a general visiting his troops.
- to come to in order to comfort or aid:
to visit the sick.
- to come upon; assail; afflict:
The plague visited London in 1665.
- to cause trouble, suffering, etc., to come to:
to visit him with sorrows.
- to access, as a website.
- to inflict, as punishment, vengeance, etc. (often followed by on or upon ).
verb (used without object)
- to make a visit.
- to talk or chat casually:
to visit on the phone with a friend.
- to inflict punishment.
noun
- the act of or an instance of visiting:
a nice, long visit.
- a chat or talk:
We had a good visit on the way back from the grocery store.
- a call paid to a person, family, etc.
- a stay or sojourn as a guest.
- an official inspection or examination.
- the act of an officer of a belligerent nation in boarding a vessel in order to ascertain the nature of its cargo, its nationality, etc.:
the right of visit and search.
visit
/ ˈɪɪ /
verb
- to go or come to see (a person, place, etc)
- to stay with (someone) as a guest
- to go or come to (an institution, place, etc) for the purpose of inspecting or examining
- tr (of a disease, disaster, etc) to assail; afflict
- tr; foll by upon or on to inflict (punishment, etc)
the judge visited his full anger upon the defendant
- archaic.trusually foll bywith to afflict or plague (with punishment, etc)
- informal.often foll by with to chat or converse (with someone)
noun
- the act or an instance of visiting
- a stay as a guest
- a professional or official call
- a formal call for the purpose of inspection or examination
- international law the right of an officer of a belligerent state to stop and search neutral ships in war to verify their nationality and ascertain whether they carry contraband
the right of visit and search
- informal.a friendly talk or chat
Derived Forms
- ˈٲ, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- t·i verb (used without object)
- ԴDz·i·Բ adjective
- ·i noun verb
- ·i verb noun
- ܲ·i· adjective
- ܲ·i·Բ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of visit1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of visit1
Idioms and Phrases
see pay a call (visit) .Example Sentences
The place had become "totemic", he said, adding it was a place of marriage proposals, family visits and even location of ashes for deceased individuals.
She later visited her local police station to file a complaint about the encounter, her lawsuit said, but when there was no follow-up by the department she decided to take the matter to court.
William and Catherine celebrated their 14th wedding anniversary on Tuesday as they began an official visit to the island off the west coast of Scotland.
Previous iterations of the retrospective exhibition have visited the Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Sweden and Spain, but organisers said it had never been shown in the form it will take in London.
Her father Glen Sebastian described her as a "typical little princess" and said they would enjoy visiting places like the West End and art galleries.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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