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visitor

visitor

908 1.0
A person who goes to a place for a short time to see someone or something
  • noun
  • /ˈvɪzɪtər/
translation icon : visitante
  • I'm having a visitor, if you don't mind.
  • a frequent visitor
  • many visitors
  • a million visitors

Cole was deeply attentive as director to his visitors experience in the galleries.

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Examples

  • The museum welcomed many new visitors over the weekend.

  • The school was fenced, and visitors had to have passes.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Do people have the right to have visitors in their own homes?

  • I think we might have a visitor on the way.

  • Looks like I have a little visitor in my seat.

  • Ladies, your visitor is here.

  • I heard you had a visitor.

  • It's nice to have a visitor.

  • We even had visitors, Palestinian visitors who came and contributed.

  • But it's not often that visitors make it past the showroom floor.

Synonyms

guest
vsvisitor
1.0

A person invited to someone's home, hotel, restaurant, or event

is for someone who comes socially without special invitation or hospitality
caller
vsvisitor
39 3.2

A person who visits someone, often without asking first

is the normal social arrival that is often planned or invited rather than unarranged
visitant
vsvisitor
  • Archaic
1 9.8

A person who goes to a place to see people or things, often in old writing

is the neutral everyday term rather than the formal or literary one
visitator
vsvisitor
  • Archaic
9.9

A person who visits a place for a short time

is the modern common word rather than the archaic or rare form

Antonyms

1.8

A person who lives in a place for a long time

Compounds

A person who visits every month

How Long

resident
1.8
houseguest
17 2.3
visitor
908 1.0
caller
39 3.2

Surface Forms

visitor singular
visitors plural

Morphology

visitor = visit (transparent) = visit + or

A straightforward agentive suffix '-or' added to the verb 'visit' yields 'visitor' meaning 'person who visits'.

Etymology

Visitor comes from the old Latin verb visitare, which means 'to go and see'. The same root is in the familiar verb visit, so a visitor is someone who 'goes to see' a person or place for a short time.