noun · 9 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Received-Pronunciation:/ˈvɪzɪtə/
General-American:/ˈvɪzɪtɚ/
rhymes with -ɪzɪtə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET:V IH1 Z IH0 T ER0
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 2
Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.
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noun
Meaning 3
Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural-normally
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Meaning 4
A person authorized to visit an institution to see that it is being managed properly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
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Meaning 5
An extraterrestrial being on Earth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning 6
An object which lands or passes by Earth or its orbit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 7
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
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noun
Meaning 8
The object in the visitor pattern that performs an operation on the elements of a structure one by one.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Partly from Middle English visiter, visitere, equivalent to visit + -er; and partly from Middle English visitour, from Anglo-Norman visitour, from Old French visetëor. By surface analysis, visit + -or.
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153 source translations are retained for this English entry.