visit

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

(verb)

See visit in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb

to go or come to see (someone) out of friendship or for social reasons
to stay with as a guest for a time
to go or come to see in a professional or business capacity: to visit a doctor (or a patient)
to go or come to (a place) in order to inspect or investigate
to go or come to for a time so as to make use of, look at, etc.: to visit an art gallery
to occur or come to: visited by an odd idea
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.,

noun

the act or an instance of visiting; specif.,

a social call
a stay as a guest; sojourn
an official or professional call, as of a doctor
an official call as for inspection or investigation
☆ Informal a friendly conversation
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

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.
To go or come to: visits the bank on Fridays.
To go to see in order to aid or console: visit the sick and dying.
To make itself known to or seize fleetingly: was visited by a bizarre thought.
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

noun

The act or an instance of visiting a person, place, or thing.
A stay or sojourn as a guest.
The act of visiting in a professional capacity.
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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