visiting
2
1.0
- noun
- /ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ/
:
visita
- After visiting the museum, they shared their experiences over dinner.
- Visiting Scholar
- Visiting Scholar program
- Visiting Chair
Examples
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A program that helped me was the Campbell Hall Visiting Scholar Program.
Academic text (2005) -
I am in Rome visiting the Sistine Chapel.
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Another type of provider is not-for-profit home health agencies such as the Visiting Nurse Association.
Academic text (1994) -
Visiting is important in that it makes possible the face-to-face interactions that have historically been vital to Amish social life.
Academic text (2016) -
In 1968, the Visiting Biologists Program, funded by NSF and the Atomic Energy Commission, scheduled 150 visits to schools.
Academic text (1997) -
The present article was partially completed while the author was an International Visiting Woodstock Fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University.
Academic text (2010) -
The author acknowledges the generosity of Regent College, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, and its Honorary Visiting Scholar program, under whose auspices this research was completed.
Academic text (1990) -
To begin with, she couldn't recall talking to him, the Visiting Anthropologist, at the Dean's party for new faculty, and forgot she'd invited him to her place for dinner.
Fiction book (2001) -
Her favorite activity during the holidays is visiting her grandparents in the countryside.
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The school organized several visiting days for parents to see the classroom activities.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
An occasion when someone goes to see a person or place, usually for a short time
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2.3
A short visit to someone for business or social reasons
Compounds
7
4.1
A teacher or researcher from another university who works there for a short time
- Archaic
1
6.4
A small card with a person's name and sometimes address left to announce their visit
- Archaic
An important person who visits a place for business or official reasons
How Frequent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word visiting comes from the Latin visitare, which means 'to go see' and shares the same idea as English vision ('seeing'). So a visiting is simply the act of going to see people or places.