Visitor

Quick meaning: Visitor is a noun meaning Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.

Meaning

Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.

More Meanings

1. Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.
2. (sports, usually in the plural) Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.
3. (law) A person authorized to visit an institution to see that it is being managed properly.
4. (ufology, specifically) An extraterrestrial being on Earth.
5. An object which lands or passes by Earth or its orbit.
6. (software engineering) The object in the visitor pattern that performs an operation on the elements of a structure one by one.
7. (British) A head or overseer of an institution such as a college (in which case, equivalent to the university's chancellor) or cathedral or hospital, who resolves disputes, gives ceremonial speeches, etc.

Example Sentences

"'Tis some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door— / Only this, and nothing more."

Belgrade knew how to show visitors a good time, thanks to its fashionable, somewhat raucous nightclub and bar scene.

He ventured to raise his eyes again, and found his supernatural visitor confronting him in an erect attitude, with its chain wound over and about its arm.

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.

Word Forms

• visitors
• visitour
• visiter

Synonyms for visitor

Depending on context, synonyms include visitant.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include visitant, visiting, visited, guest, hospitality, tourism.

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