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VISITOR

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who visits

Synonyms:

visitant; visitor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("visitor" is a kind of...):

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "visitor"):

boulevardier (a visitor of a city boulevard (especially in Paris))

caller; company (a social or business visitor)

guest; invitee (a visitor to whom hospitality is extended)

visiting fireman (an important or distinguished visitor)

Derivation:

visit (talk socially without exchanging too much information)

visit (go to certain places as for sightseeing)

visit (come to see in an official or professional capacity)

visit (pay a brief visit)

visit (go to see a place, as for entertainment)

visit (stay with as a guest)

Credits

 Context examples: 

“It is well,” replied my visitor.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was not until we had returned in the afternoon to our cottage that we found a visitor awaiting us, who soon brought our minds back to the matter in hand.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

While the researchers also didn’t investigate the impact of visitors on cancer patients undergoing therapy, the effect would likely be similar.

(Social interaction affects cancer patients’ response to treatment, National Institutes of Health)

“Yes, sir,” said our visitor, pushing his huge form into the room.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He prowled about the cabin while the sled-dogs slept, and the first night- visitor to the cabin fought him off with a club until Weedon Scott came to the rescue.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The next, there was a crash in the underwood and our dreadful visitor was gone.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And all this despite the fact that microbial dispersion in this area, due to the wind and to human visitors, is intense.

(Place discovered on earth with no microbial life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

But it was one of her progeny who blasted Maria's reputation by announcing that the grand visitors had been for her lodger.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"The LSST will be leaps and bounds beyond any other survey we have in terms of capability to find small interstellar visitors," Knight said.

('Oumuamua interstellar object was not an alien spacecraft, National Science Foundation)

After passing some months in London, we received a letter from a person in Scotland who had formerly been our visitor at Geneva.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)