visit

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See also: visít

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English visiten, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French visiter, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin vīsitō, frequentative of vīsō (“behold, survey”), from videō (“see”). Cognate with Old Saxon wīsōn (“to visit, afflict”), archaic German weisen (“to visit, afflict”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɪzɪt/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪzɪt
  • Hyphenation: vis‧it

Verb

visit (third-person singular simple present visits, present participle visiting, simple past and past participle visited)

  1. (transitive) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) [from 13th c.]
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability. [from 14th c.]
  3. (transitive) Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) [from 13th c.]
    • Bible, Luke i. 68
      [God] hath visited and redeemed his people.
    • 1611, Bible, Authorized (King James) Version, Ruth I.6:
      Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.
  4. (transitive, now rare) To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something). [from 14th c.]
  5. (transitive) Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone). [from 14th c.]
    • 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough:
      There used to be a sharp contest as to where the effigy was to be made, for the people thought that the house from which it was carried forth would not be visited with death that year.
  6. (transitive) To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone. [from 14th c.]
    • 2011, John Mullan, The Guardian, 2 Dec 2011:
      If this were an Ibsen play, we would be thinking of the sins of one generation being visited upon another, he said.
  7. (transitive) To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) [from 14th c.]
  8. (transitive) To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc. [from 15th c.]

Synonyms

Translations

to inflict — see inflict
to avenge — see avenge

Noun

visit (plural visits)

  1. A single act of visiting.
    • 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:
      There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”
  2. (medicine, insurance) A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.

Derived terms

Derived terms

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Translations

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) vīsit

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of vīsō
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