Visitation

Quick meaning: Visitation is a noun meaning The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.

Meaning

The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.

More Meanings

1. An official visit to inspect or examine something.
2. An encounter with aliens or supernatural beings such as ghosts.
3. An affliction or disaster attributed to destiny, or to God.
4. (law) The right of a separated or divorced parent to visit a child; access.
5. A punishment or blessing ordained by God.
6. (ecology) An unusual and extensive irruption of a species of animals into another region.

Example Sentences

Existing visitor facilities for both frontcountry areas experience crowding during the summer season, when the park receives most of its visitation, […]

Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]

But when the blow comes down in the fulness of expectation; when the bough is smitten while green, and the flower cut down in its spring; when the young and lovely perish, while the eyes, full of light, were fixed on the future,—then, indeed, is the visitation heavy to bear.

Word Forms

• visitations

Synonyms for visitation

Depending on context, synonyms include trial, visit, tribulation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include visit, trial, tribulation, attendance, usage, enrolment.

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