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visitant

adj · noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /ˈvɪzɪtənt/

1

adj

Meaning 1

Visiting.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1677, Thomas d’Urfey, Madam Fickle, or, The Witty False One, London: James Magnes & Richard Bentley, Act III, Scene 2, p. 33, Now the plots unravell’d: I begin to have a knowledge of the visitant Kinsman that us’d to molest us.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

One who visits; a guest; a visitor.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1612-13, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi Act I, Scene III, Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness, / That is not kept in chains and close-pent rooms, / But in fair lightsome lodgings, and is girt / With the wild noise of prattling visitants, / Which makes it lunatic beyond all cure.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A spectre or ghost.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

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Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A migratory bird that makes a temporary stop somewhere.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

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Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

someone who visits

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: visitor

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: traveler, traveller

Narrower terms: boulevardier, caller, company, guest, invitee, visiting fireman

History

Etymology

From French visitant, present participle of visiter.

Across languages

Translations

11 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: посетител (posetitel) — one who visits
  • Bulgarian: гост (gost) — one who visits
  • Georgian: მნახველი (mnaxveli) — one who visits
  • Georgian: სტუმარი (sṭumari) — one who visits
  • Russian: гость (gostʹ) — one who visits
  • Russian: го́стья (góstʹja) — one who visits
  • Russian: посети́тель (posetítelʹ) — one who visits
  • Russian: посети́тельница (posetítelʹnica) — one who visits
  • Russian: прие́зжий (prijézžij) — one who visits
  • Russian: прие́зжая (prijézžaja) — one who visits
  • Ottoman Turkish: زیارتجی (ziyâretci) — one who visits