visitor

See also Visitor

English

Alternative forms

• visitour (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈvɪzɪtə/

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Noun

visitor (plural visitors)

1. Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.
2. Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted.

3. (sports, usually in the plural) Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.
   • 2011 May 14, Peter Scrivener, “Sunderland 1 - 3 Wolverhampton”, BBC Sport:

     But, somewhat against the run of play, Craddock fired the visitors ahead, volleying a low effort beyond Simon Mignolet after Sunderland twice failed to clear attempted crosses from Stephen Hunt.

Derived terms

• visitorship

Translations

guest

Arabic: زائر (zā’ir) Croatian: posjetitelj (hr) m. Dutch: bezoeker (nl) m. Finnish: vieras (fi) German: Besucher (de) m., Gast (de) m.. Greek: επισκέπτης (el) (episképtis) m.

Macedonian: посетител (mk) (posétitel) m., гостин (mk) (góstin) m. Spanish: visita (es) f. Swahili: mgeni (sw) Tagalog: panauhin (tl) Volapük: visitan (vo)

sightseer

Czech: návštěvník (cs) m. Dutch: bezoeker (nl) m. German: Besucher (de) m.

Greek: επισκέπτης (el) (episképtis) m. Macedonian: посетител (mk) (posétitel) m. Swahili: mgeni (sw)

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Mandarin: 访客 (fǎng kè)

Novial: visitere

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Latin

Verb

vīsitor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of vīsitō