visitor
noun
Simple meaning
Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
vizuhterSay the bold part a little louder.
IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈvɪzətɚ
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a standard way of writing speech sounds.
Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
sportsusually in the plural
Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.
Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.
Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.
An object which lands or passes by Earth or its orbit.
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.
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- A2 · Elementary (estimated)
- Frequency
- Common
- Typical Use
- Varies by meaning
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.
Used this way, visitor is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. This is a sporting use: familiar to anyone who follows the game, and puzzling to anyone who does not.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Where it naturally appears
- Sports
- News/reporting
- Everyday conversation
Nearby words
- visitant , rarer, so it draws attention
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use visitor
- “A special visitor is coming to our house this weekend.”noun
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Common Patterns and Combinations
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Word Family
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Word family
Words built from the same root.
An annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event.
Related words
Connected by subject or meaning, not by word formation.
An important or distinguished visitor.
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