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visit definition

visit (viz′it)

transitive verb

  1. to go or come to see (someone) out of friendship or for social reasons
  2. to stay with as a guest for a time
  3. to go or come to see in a professional or business capacity to visit a doctor (or a patient)
  4. to go or come to (a place) in order to inspect or investigate
  5. to go or come to for a time so as to make use of, look at, etc. to visit an art gallery
  6. to occur or come to visited by an odd idea
  7. to bring suffering, trouble, etc. to; assail a drought visited the land
    1. to inflict (punishment, suffering, etc.) upon someone
    2. to afflict (with punishment, suffering, etc.)
    3. to inflict punishment for (wrongdoing); avenge visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children

Etymology: ME visiten < OFr visiter < L visitare, freq. < visere, to go to see < visus: see vision

intransitive verb

to visit someone or something; specif.,
  1. to inflict punishment or revenge
  2. ☆ to make a social call or calls: often used with with
  3. to stay with someone as a guest
  4. ☆ Informal to converse or chat, as during a visit

noun

the act or an instance of visiting; specif.,
  1. a social call
  2. a stay as a guest; sojourn
  3. an official or professional call, as of a doctor
  4. an official call as for inspection or investigation
  5. ☆ Informal a friendly conversation
  6. Maritime Law the boarding of a ship of a neutral nation by an officer of a nation at war to search it for contraband, etc.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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