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visitor Definition

visi·tor (viz′it ər)

noun

a person making a visit

Etymology: ME visitour < Anglo-Fr < MFr visiteur

visitor Synonyms

visitor

n.

guest, caller, company, visitant, official inspector.

visitor is the general term for one who comes to see a person or spend some time in a place, whether for social, business, or professional reasons, or for pleasure visitors to the Grand Canyon; visitant now generally suggests a supernatural rather than a human visitor and, in biology, is applied to a migratory bird in any of its temporary resting places; guest applies to one who is hospitably entertained at the home of another, as at dinner, or, by extension, to one who pays for his lodgings, meals, etc. at a hotel; caller applies to one who makes a brief, often formal visit, as for business or social reasons

visitor Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • attract: The 8th century Offa's Dike attracts numerous visitors each year together with the remains of several Norman castles.
  • greet: There is one terrible monument that greets visitors on the road from Colombo to Galle.
  • welcome: Visitors Fees We welcome visitors to our weekly meetings; , there is no obligation to join.
  • invite: DEVELOPMENT: Invite the visitors to sit with their pupil partners at the front.
  • allow: Coventry eased off the intensity at the same time allowing the visitors back into the game.
  • entertain: In the early days the abbot of Fountains would have presided as host, but later entertained distinguished visitors in a private chamber.

Adjective modifier

  • frequent: She was attached to the Swedish Embassy in London and was a frequent visitor to the Club so they both became close friends.
  • overseas: Passport to the Pub: scholarly guide, aimed at overseas visitors, to British pub etiquette.
  • regular: Some regular visitors even have their photos stuck on the ceiling by the doorway.
  • casual: Citizenship activities will be running for Schools as well as a quiz for casual visitors.
  • disabled: Parking for disabled visitors or setting down point available within castle grounds.
  • foreign: Snow lake - The name snow lake was given in 1892 by W Martin Conway the first foreign visitors in these parts.

Modifies a noun

  • attraction: It is envisaged that the City will become a national visitor attraction.
  • mooring: Moored on the first set of visitor moorings at Polesworth.
  • moorings: Stopped for lunch on the visitor moorings at the top of the Aston Locks.
  • center: Outside the visitor center, the quarry trail takes you back over three hundred million years.
  • destination: Public and private sector energies are now focusing very much on the waterfront with the aim of establishing it as a world-class visitor destination.

Noun used with modifier

  • custody: Independent custody visitors have no right to see the detainee's medical records, even where these are attached to the custody record.
  • health: For example, a health visitor, headteacher or family doctor.
  • winter: The exposed rocks of road cuttings sometimes support the Blue Rock Thrush, a winter visitor.
visitor Quotes

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say '.'

—Burroughs,William S(eward)

The God who Looks after Small Things had caused the visitor that day to receive two weeks'delayed mails in one.

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor. In the end you have to be content with his common humanity.

—Shaw, George Bernard

Piano, n. A parlour utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

—Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett

Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to different species.

—Laver,James

That feeling of exhilaration which a measure of danger brings to the visitor with a return ticket.

—Greene, (Henry) Graham