visit
verb · noun
Simple meaning
To go and meet as an act of friendliness or sociability.
Pronunciation
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IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈvɪzət
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Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
verb
transitiveintransitive
To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
transitive
To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.
transitive
To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
transitive
Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
transitive
Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).
transitive
To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone.
noun
The act of visiting in an official capacity (as for an inspection)
A single act of visiting.
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- A1 · Beginner
- Frequency
- Very Common
- Typical Use
- Everyday English
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: The act of visiting in an official capacity (as for an inspection)
Used this way, visit is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It suits considered writing and prepared speech.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Official and authoritative
- Usage feel
- Formal and precise
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More ways to use visit
- “Every summer, we visited our relatives in the country for a month.”verb
- “He dropped by for a visit.”noun
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Word Family
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Inflected forms
Grammatical variations of the same word.
The activity of making visits.
Word family
Words built from the same root.
Someone who visits.
An annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event.
Compound terms
Established multiword terms.
A nurse who is paid to visit the sick in their homes.
A professor visiting another college or university to teach for a limited time.
An important or distinguished visitor.
A printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited.
A visit that last for only a very short time.
A visit in an official capacity to examine a site to determine its suitability for some enterprise.
Related words
Connected by subject or meaning, not by word formation.
The right granted by a court to a parent (or other relative) who is deprived of custody of a child to visit the child on a regular basis.
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Synonyms
Sense: visiting in an official capacity (as for an inspection)
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