visit

Visit is defined as to go to see someone or someplace, or stay with someone as a guest.

(verb)

  1. An example of to visit is going hiking in Patagonia.
  2. An example of to visit is staying with your parents for the holidays.

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See visit in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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

Origin: 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.

See visit in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb vis·it·ed, vis·it·ing, vis·its
verb, transitive
  1. a. To call on socially: visit friends.
    b. To go to see or spend time at (a place) with a certain intent: visit a museum; visited London.
    c. To stay with as a guest.
    d. To go to see in an official or professional capacity: visited the dentist; a priest visiting his parishioners.
  2. To go or come to: visits the bank on Fridays.
  3. To go to see in order to aid or console: visit the sick and dying.
  4. To make itself known to or seize fleetingly: was visited by a bizarre thought.
  5. a. To afflict or assail: A plague visited the village.
    b. To inflict punishment on or for; avenge: The sins of the ancestors were visited on their descendants.
verb, intransitive
  1. To make a visit.
  2. Informal To converse or chat: Stay and visit with me for a while.
noun
  1. The act or an instance of visiting a person, place, or thing.
  2. A stay or sojourn as a guest.
  3. The act of visiting in a professional capacity.
  4. The act of visiting in an official capacity, such as an inspection or examination.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English visiten

Origin: , from Old French visiter

Origin: , from Latin vīsitāre

Origin: , frequentative of vīsere, to want to see, go to see

Origin: , from vidēre, to see; see weid- in Indo-European roots

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