visitor
- noun
- /ˈvɪzɪtər/
- 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.
- Cole was deeply attentive as director to his visitors experience in the galleries.
- I think we might have a visitor on the way.
- He says tell Murph to expect some visitors.
- Please return your map to the visitor center.
- When you're in prison, you see how many visitors you get.
Examples
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The museum welcomed many new visitors over the weekend.
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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?
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I think we might have a visitor on the way.
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Looks like I have a little visitor in my seat.
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Ladies, your visitor is here.
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I heard you had a visitor.
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It's nice to have a visitor.
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We even had visitors, Palestinian visitors who came and contributed.
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But it's not often that visitors make it past the showroom floor.
Synonyms
A person invited to someone's home, hotel, restaurant, or event
A person who visits someone, often without asking first
A person who goes to a place to see people or things, often in old writing
A person who visits a place for a short time
Antonyms
Compounds
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Morphology
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.