Visit

Quick meaning: Visit is a verb meaning (transitive) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.).

Meaning

(transitive) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.).

More Meanings

1. (transitive, intransitive) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
2. (transitive) Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
3. (transitive, now rare) To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something).
4. (transitive) Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).
5. (transitive) To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone.
6. (transitive) To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
7. (transitive) To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.

Example Sentences

[God] hath visited and redeemed his people.

She decided to visit her grandparents for Christmas.

Her life was spared by the clemency of the emperor, but he visited the pomp and treasures of her palace.

If this were an Ibsen play, we would be thinking of the sins of one generation being visited upon another, he said.

Word Forms

• visits
• visiting
• visited
• visitest
• visitedst
• visiteth

Synonyms for visit

Depending on context, synonyms include call, see, impose, inspect, chatter, confabulate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include impose, inspect, chaffer, see, confab, chat.

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