Dictionary entries for 'visit'

Synonyms

vis·it (vĭźĭt)

[Middle English visiten, from Old French visiter, from Latin vīsitāre frequentative of vīsere, to want to see, go to see, from vidēre, to see.]

verb: -it·ed, -it·ing, -its.

1. To call on socially: visit friends.
2. To go to see or spend time at (a place) with a certain intent: visit a museum; visited London.
3. To stay with as a guest.
4. 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.
1. To afflict or assail: A plague visited the village.
2. To inflict punishment on or for; avenge: The sins of the ancestors were visited on their descendants.

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.