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Visit

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Noun

1. visit

the act of going to see some person or place or thing for a short time

Example Sentences:
'he dropped by for a visit'

2. visit

a meeting arranged by the visitor to see someone (such as a doctor or lawyer) for treatment or advice

Example Sentences:
'he scheduled a visit to the dentist'

3. visit

the act of visiting in an official capacity (as for an inspection)

4. visit

the act of going to see some person in a professional capacity

Example Sentences:
'a visit to the dentist'

5. sojourn, visit

a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest)

Verb

6. see, visit

go to see a place, as for entertainment

Example Sentences:
'We went to see the Eiffel Tower in the morning'

7. travel to, visit

go to certain places as for sightseeing

Example Sentences:
'Did you ever visit Paris?'

8. call, call in, visit

pay a brief visit

Example Sentences:
'The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens'

9. inspect, visit

come to see in an official or professional capacity

Example Sentences:
'The governor visited the prison'
'The grant administrator visited the laboratory'

10. bring down, impose, inflict, visit

impose something unpleasant

Example Sentences:
'The principal visited his rage on the students'

11. chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit

talk socially without exchanging too much information

Example Sentences:
'the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze'

12. visit

stay with as a guest

Example Sentences:
'Every summer, we visited our relatives in the country for a month'

13. visit

assail

Example Sentences:
'He was visited with a terrible illness that killed him quickly'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Visit

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verb -its, -iting or -ited
1. 
to go or come to see (a person, place, etc)
2. 
to stay with (someone) as a guest
3. 
to go or come to (an institution, place, etc) for the purpose of inspecting or examining
4. (transitive)
(of a disease, disaster, etc) to assail; afflict
5. (tr; foll by upon or on)
to inflict (punishment, etc)
the judge visited his full anger upon the defendant
6. (transitive; usually foll by with) archaic
to afflict or plague (with punishment, etc)
7. (often foll by with) US and Canadian informal
to chat or converse (with someone)
noun
8. 
the act or an instance of visiting
9. 
a stay as a guest
10. 
a professional or official call
11. 
a formal call for the purpose of inspection or examination
12. international law
the right of an officer of a belligerent state to stop and search neutral ships in war to verify their nationality and ascertain whether they carry contraband
the right of visit and search
13. US and Canadian informal
a friendly talk or chat

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Visit

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verb transitive
1. 
to go or come to see (someone) out of friendship or for social reasons
2. 
to stay with as a guest for a time
3. 
to go or come to see in a professional or business capacity
to visit a doctor (or a patient)
4. 
to go or come to (a place) in order to inspect or investigate
5. 
to go or come to for a time so as to make use of, look at, etc.
to visit an art gallery
6. 
to occur or come to
visited by an odd idea
7. 
to bring suffering, trouble, etc. to; assail
a drought visited the land
8. 
a. 
to inflict (punishment, suffering, etc.) upon someone
b. 
to afflict (with punishment, suffering, etc.)
c. 
to inflict punishment for (wrongdoing); avenge
visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children
verb intransitive
9. 
to visit someone or something
; specif.,
a. 
to inflict punishment or revenge
b.  US
to make a social call or calls
often used with with
c. 
to stay with someone as a guest
d.  US, Informal
to converse or chat, as during a visit
noun
10. 
the act or an instance of visiting
; specif.,
a. 
a social call
b. 
a stay as a guest; sojourn
c. 
an official or professional call, as of a doctor
d. 
an official call as for inspection or investigation
e.  US, Informal
a friendly conversation
f.  Maritime
the boarding of a ship of a neutral nation by an officer of a nation at war to search it for contraband, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Visit

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v. vis·it·ed, vis·it·ing, vis·its
v.tr.
1.
a. To go to see or spend time with (someone); call on socially: visit friends.
b. To go to see in order to aid or console: visit the sick and dying.
c. To stay with (someone) as a guest.
d. To go to see in an official or professional capacity: visited the dentist; a priest visiting his parishioners.
2.
a. To go to see or spend time at (a place) with a certain intent: visit a museum; visited London.
b. To access (a website).
3. To occur to or occupy the mind of: was visited by a bizarre thought.
4. To consider or discuss: Has she visited that topic on her blog?
5.
a. To afflict or assail: A plague visited the village.
b. To inflict or impose: In the Bible, God visits his wrath on the sinful.
c. Archaic To inflict punishment on or for; avenge: The sins of the ancestors were visited on their descendants.
v.intr.
1. To make a visit.
2. Informal To converse or chat: Stay and visit with me for a while.
n.
1. The act or an instance of visiting a person or place.
2. A stay or sojourn as a guest.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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