Visit

Definition: Visit

Visit

Noun

1. The act of going to see some person or place or thing for a short time; "he dropped by for a short visit".

2. A meeting arranged by the visitor to see someone (such as a doctor or lawyer) for treatment or advice; "he scheduled a visit to the dentist".

Verb

1. Visit a place, as for entertainment; "We went to see the Eiffel Tower in the morning".

2. Go to certain places.

3. Pay a brief visit; "The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens".

4. Come to see in an official or professional capacity; "The governor visited the prison"; "The grant administrator visited the laboratory".

5. Impose something unpleasant: "The principal visited his rage on the students".

6. Chew the fat; shoot the breeze.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "visit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Computing

Dream Interpretation

General

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Visit

Arrival

Light, alight, dismount; land, go ashore; debark, disembark; put in, put into; visit, cast anchor, pitch one's tent; sit down; (be located); get to one's journey's end; make the land; be in at the death; come back, get back, come home, get home; return; come in; (ingress); make one's appearance; (appear); drop in; detrain, deplane; outspan; de-orbit.

Courtesy

Visit, wait upon, present oneself, pay one's respects, pay a visit; (sociability); dance attendance on; (servility); pay attentions to; do homage to; (respect).

Inquiry

Reconnoitering, reconnaissance; prying; Verb: espionage, espionnage; domiciliary visit, peep behind the curtain; lantern of Diogenes.

Punishment

Visit upon, pay; pay out, serve out; do for; make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of; have a rod in pickle for; give it one.

Sociality

Be at home with, feel at home with, make oneself at home with; make free with; crack a bottle with; receive hospitality, live at free quarters; find the latchstring out. visit, pay a visit; interchange visits, interchange cards; call at, call upon; leave a card; drop in, look in; look one up, beat up one's quarters.

Crosswords: Visit

Danish (visit), Pidgin English (to visit, visit), Swedish (call, visit).

On this one night those cries belonged to my friend John, when guard Ferguson paid him a visit. (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson)

Never get hurt, you can always have fun. And if you ever get lonely, you just go to the record store and visit all your friends (Almost Famous; writing credit: Cameron Crowe)

It must be difficult having sworn your life to the Jedi not being able to visit the places you like or do the things you like (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas)

We have come to visit you in peace and with goodwill (The Day the Earth Stood Still; writing credit: Harry Bates; Edmund H. North)

When I get out, I'm gonna come visit you. Have some real fun (JFK; writing credit: Jim Marrs; Jim Garrison)

Want to come visit me in california (Unsent; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

Goes to visit his mommy (Ants Marching; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band)

Will you visit me please (Cars; performing artist: Gary Numan)

And visit a nearby tower (Alone Again (Naturally); performing artist: Gilbert O'Sullivan)

I'll come and visit you in the zoo (One Season; performing artist: The Roches)

When riding a dead horse (government), try arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses. (references; author: unknown)

Visit to a Chief's Son (1974)

The Christmas Visit (1973)

Let's Visit the World of the Future (1973)

President Nyerere's Visit to India (1973)

A Visit to Indiana (1970)

Angel Visit (performing artist: Thrashing Doves)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Visit USA Travel Market in Finland: A Strategic Entry Report, 1998 (reference)

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Books

• The Royal Physician's Visit (reference)

• Twas the Night Before Christmas, or Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Visit Detroit (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Beatles - The First U.S. Visit (reference)

• The Visit (reference)

• Let's Visit Paris (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Manhattan Swing: A Visit With the Duke (reference)

• The Visit (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Musee d'Orsay: Virtual Visit (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

DHEW Secretary, F. David Mathews is greated by CDC Director, Dr. David Sencer during a 1975 visit to CDC. Credit: CDC.

Visit on March 31, 1999 to demonstrate PHIL for a meeting of the Partners in Information Access for Public Health. Credit: CDC.

SeaWiFS 30 August 1999 view of Dennis - click on image for larger view. For Hi-Res view visit the SeaWiFS Homepage. Credit: NASA.

Visit by Dr Wernher von Braun and Oran W. Nicks. Credit: NASA.

Visit of Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to Johnson Space Center. Credit: NASA.

At a St. Petersburg school, student volunteers mix beach sand, peat moss, and vermiculite to plant nursery plants. Once the plants are established, Tampa Baywatch staff visit regularly and the students monitor the health of the plants once a week and measure salinity and PH in the ponds. This nursery was built on Feb. 24, 1998, donor plants taken on the 25th and planted on the 26th. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A site visit by Terry McTigue of NOAA. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve. Canoeing is a great way to visit parts of our National Estuarine Research Reserves. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

In: "The Meteor Expedition," by F. Spiess, German Atlantic Expedition 1925-1927. The harbor at Rio de Janeiro during the visit of the METEOR. Plate 100. Library Call Number C/La S755. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Gen. Charles T. Robertson, commander of Air Mobility Command and commander in chief of U.S. Transportation Command, led a group of senior officers from both commands on a visit to the New York Stock Exchange Oct. 20. The purpose of the visit was to examin.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

In particular it will be its duty to make an inventory of the aeronautical material existing in German territory, to inspect aeroplane, balloon and motor manufactories, and factories producing arms, munitions and explosives capable of being used by aircraft, to visit all aerodromes, sheds, landing grounds, parks and depots, to authorise, where necessary, a removal of material and to take delivery of such material. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A reasonable visit paid, Mr. Weston began to move

We visit for a single day, And whether then we go, or stay, Depends on circumstances

To visit all these is a great labour, but the bishop went through with it.

By your patience, I may not suffer you to visit them

The people had notice by proclamation of my design to visit the town

Men who did not know when their visit had terminated, though I went about my business again, answering them from greater and greater remoteness

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Continue to visit your doctor regularly. (references)

If you use a peak flow meter, bring it to each visit. (references)

Take notes from the tape after the visit is finished. (references)

Business

Over 1 million Israeli Arabs visit the PA, some on a regular basis. (references)

As a consequence, Italians tend to visit the U.S. frequently but for shorter stays. (references)

It also contains full information on the membership of the Visit USA Committee France. (references)

Children

Switzerland

Children of foreigners working as migrant laborers only are permitted to visit on tourist visas for a period of 3 months at a time. (references)

Kyrgyz Republic

In one program facilitated by foreign volunteers, local high school students began to visit special institutions such as those for persons with mental disabilities. (references)

Afghanistan

Physicians for Human Rights reported that children at times were denied medical care when the authorities did not let male doctors visit children's wards, which in some instances are located within the women's ward of a hospital, or did not allow male doctors to treat children accompanied only by their mothers. (references)

Civil Liberties

Ukraine

The Pope's June visit widely was considered successful. (references)

Cyprus

Armenians may not visit any religious sites in the north. (references)

Fiji

The ICRC and the Fiji Red Cross visit the camp periodically. (references)

Economic History

Micronesia

Some 15,000 tourists visit the islands each year. (references)

Nigeria

Fee: US$250 for 1-day visit; $150 each additional day. (references)

Denmark

Some 350,000 U.S. tourists visit the country annually. (references)

Human Rights

Seychelles

At least one visit was conducted during the year. (references)

Brunei

Family members also may visit prisoners and bring food. (references)

Belgium

Families are allowed to visit prisoners without supervision. (references)

Minorities

Sri Lanka

Thousands of Catholics took the opportunity to visit the shrine. (references)

Guinea

The conflict eased after a visit by the Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization, but the region remained tense. (references)

Russia

This act was perpetrated just days after the Rosh Hashanah visit to the synagogue of Moscow Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov and other dignitaries. (references)

Political Economy

Moldova

Human rights groups were not permitted to visit prisoners in Transnistria. (references)

Sudan

The SPLM allowed the ICRC to visit some POW's during the year and released some prisoners in poor health. (references)

Cyprus

As a result, visitors who enter Cyprus through the "TRNC" are not allowed to visit the southern part of the island. (references)

Political Rights

Kazakhstan

In February 2000, a team of OSCE representatives visited Astana to discuss the final OSCE report on the parliamentary elections; government officials agreed during the visit to an OSCE proposal for a series of roundtable discussions of the electoral reforms recommended in the report. (references)

Trade

Saudi Arabia

Therefore, a Saudi rarely assumes sponsorship unless he has a personal interest in the proposed visit. (references)

China

If in the end no pre-license visit is permitted by the Chinese Government, an export license may not be issued. (references)

Travel

Chad

Gaoui: The best short visit from N'Djamena. (references)

Ecuador

Those planning a longer visit must obtain a visa in advance. (references)

Portugal

No visas are required to visit Portugal for stays of 60 days or less. (references)

Women

Congo

Women also are denied custody of their children in divorce cases, but they retain the right to visit them. (references)

Malaysia

These women would be eligible for 12-month social visit passes, and they would be able to apply for permanent residency. (references)

Qatar

In other cases, foreign wives report being forbidden by their husbands or in-laws to visit or to contact foreign embassies. (references)

Worker Rights

Seychelles

Safety and health inspectors rarely visit job sites. (references)

China

In 2000, it received its first-ever visit from the head of the ICFTU. (references)

China

Foreign officials have repeatedly been denied permission to visit Nenang Monastery. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "visit": a Visit from St Nicholas ♦ ambulatory visit group ♦ annoying visit ♦ brief visit ♦ cinema visit ♦ courtesy visit ♦ curtail one's visit ♦ cut a visit short ♦ Domiciliary visit ♦ erratic visit ♦ farewell visit ♦ flying visit ♦ go on a visit ♦ hasty visit ♦ home visit ♦ inspection visit ♦ make a visit ♦ make inspection visit ♦ make short visit ♦ office visit ♦ official visit ♦ parting visit ♦ pay a visit ♦ pay a visit to ♦ pay smb. a visit ♦ private visit ♦ protract one's visit ♦ return a visit ♦ return visit ♦ right of visit ♦ screening visit ♦ short visit ♦ site visit ♦ state visit ♦ study visit ♦ surprise visit ♦ visit each other ♦ visit frequently ♦ visit on smb. ♦ visit to the doctor ♦ visit with ♦ visit with plague ♦ visit with smth.. Additional references.

Ending with "visit": pre-visit, re-visit.

Afrikaans

kuier (attend, call, call on, see), besoek. (various references)

Albanian

vizitoj (attend, come now and then, come to see, go and see), vizitë (sightseeing, tour, visitation), shkoj (be, befit, call on, come round, destine, elapse, get, go, go by, ride, step, thread, trace, tread, wend), pllakos (come unexpectedly, plague), muhabet (causerie, chat, chin, confabulation, conversation, small talk, table talk, talk), inspektoj (inspect, review, survey). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تفقد (perambulate, survey, visitation), ‏زيارة (call, visitation), ‏زار (call on, get, pay a visit, round, see, see over, skim, travel), ‏عيادة زيارة (call), ‏عاد مريضا, ‏أصاب ببلاء. (various references)

Asturian

visitar (to visit). (various references)

Aymara

amtasiña (to visit). (various references)

Basque

bisitatu (visit to). (various references)

Bemba

ukutandala (to visit). (various references)

Blackfoot

oksisawoo (to visit). (various references)

Bulgarian 

официално гостуване, инспектирам (inspect, perambulate, survey), инспекция (inspection, inspectorate, round, survey), посещавам (attend, call on, know, resort, see), посещение (call), приятелски разговор, налягам (depress, press), дарявам с, официално посещение (state call, visitation), утешавам (becalm, cheer up, comfort, console, solace, soothe), визита (call), гостуване (visiting), ревизия (inspection, overhaul, revision), ревизирам (inspect, revise), сполитам, спохождам, навестявам (drop in, drop in on, haunt, look in, repair, resort). (various references)

Catalan

visita. (various references)

Cebuano

mamisita (to visit). (various references)

Chamorro

para ma bisita (to visit). (various references)

Chinese 

訪 (inquire, seek), 省 (comprehend, frugal, introspect, province, save, to leave out, to omit, to save), 拜 (mix in, salute, to mix, to pay respect, to toss, worship), 参观 (Visited, Visiting), 上門 (drop in). (various references)

Cornish

mós dhe vyras (to visit). (various references)

Czech

navštívit (call on, do, drop it, pay a call, pay a visit, see). (various references)

Danish

visit, besøgn, besøge (attend, call on, see). (various references)

Dutch

bezoek, opzoeken (attend, call on, look, see, seek), bezoeken (attend, call on, frequent, see, visit regularly, visiting), afgaan (absent onself, attend, call on, depart, go away, go off, leave, see). (various references)

Esperanto

vizito, viziti (attend, call on, see). (various references)

Faeroese

vitja (attend, call on, see). (various references)

Farsi 

ملاقات کردن (Assemble, Meet), ملاقات , سرکشی کردن (Inspect), زیارت کردن , عیادت کردن , عیادت , دیدن کردن از, دیدوبازدیدکردن , دیدار, بازدید (Review, Revision, Survey). (various references)

Finnish

vieraskäynti (call), vierailu (stay), vierailla (be on a visit, call, pay a visit), oleskelu (sojourn, stay), kyläily, kyläillä, käynti (call, gait, step, walk), käydä vieraissa (attend, call on, see), käydä jossakin (call at a place). (various references)

French

visite, visiter (view), visitez. (various references)

Frisian

besykje (attend, call on, see, to visit), besyk, besite. (various references)

German

besuchen (attend, call on, go to, patronize, see, to attend, to come to see, to go and see, to visit), Besuch (attendance, call, company, visitation, visitor), Visite (house call, round), Besichtigung (inspection, perambulation, review, sightseeing, tour, viewing, visitation), besichtigen (go over, have a look at, inspect, look over, review, tour, view). (various references)

Greek 

επίσκεψη (call, visitation, visiting), επισκέπτομαι (call, call on, pay a visit to). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפקוד (appoint, command, entrust, muster, order, punish, recall, remember, review), להתארח (be the guest of, stay with), לסיר (reconnoitre, scout, spy, tour), ביקור, ביקר (criticize, natural), בקור (attendance, call, examination, investigation, sightseeing), סיור (excursion, expedition, round, sightseeing, tour). (various references)

Hungarian

látogat (attend, call on, see, to attend, to spook, to visit). (various references)

Indonesian

mendatangi, mendapatkan (discover, find out, invent, procure, recruit), besuk, berkunjung. (various references)

Inuktitut

pulaaqtuq (to visit). (various references)

Irish

céilí. (various references)

Italian

visita (examination, inspection), visitare (attend, call, call on, do, examine, perambulate, see, see over, see round). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

臨場 (attendance, presence), 訪問　 (call), 訪問 (call), 訪れ (advent, arrival, call), 来遊 , 来臨 (advent, attendance, coming, presence), 来訪 (call), 拝観 (inspect, see), 渡来 (importation, introduction), 往訪 (interview), 伺い (call, consulting the oracle, inquiry, question), 参観 (inspection). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おうほう (interview, retribution, royal decree), おとずれ (advent, arrival, call), さんかん (among the mountains, broad daylight, inspection, Korea), うかがい (call, consulting the oracle, inquiry, question), ほうもん (call, embrasure, gunport, muzzle), りんじょう (annular, attendance, presence, ring-shaped, scale-like, scaly), らいほう (call), らいりん (advent, attendance, coming, presence), らいゆう, はいかん (ceasing to publish, decommissioned warship, depths of one's heart, discontinuance of publication, innermost heart, inspect, lungs and livers, piping, plumbing, see), とらい (importation, introduction). (various references)

Kongo

ku-kingula (to visit). (various references)

Korean 

방문. (various references)

Luganda

okunkyalira (visit me), okukyalira (to visit me). (various references)

Macedonian

poseti (to visit). (various references)

Malagasy

mitsidika. (various references)

Malay

mengunjungi (attend, call on, see), kunjungi (attend, call on, see), kunjungan. (various references)

Manx

cur shilley er (call on, lobby), cur keayrt er (circle visit, visiting). (various references)

Maori

whakatau-a (to visit). (various references)

Maya

xiimbat (to visit). (various references)

Norwegian

visitt, besøke (attend, call on, see). (various references)

Occitan

vistalhar. (various references)

Papiamen

bishitá (attend, call on, see), bishita. (various references)

Pidgin English

visit (to visit). (various references)

Pig Latin

isitvay.(various references)

Polish

wizyta, odwiedziny. (various references)

Portuguese

visita (arrival, call, caller, guest, survey, visitant, visitation, visitor, visits), visitar (call on, do, frequent, look up, to visit, visit regularly, wait upon). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

visita (visits). (various references)

Provencal

visitar (to visit). (various references)

Quechua

watukoq (as a visitor, in order to visit). (various references)

Romanian

vizita (attend, call for, call on, come, come by, do, see, sight). (various references)

Romansch

visitar (to visit). (various references)

Ruanda

kuramukanya (to visit). (various references)

Russian 

посещение (visitation), посещать (attend, attended, be, beat up the quarters of, call on, resort, see, visited). (various references)

Samoan

e asiasi (to visit). (various references)

Scottish

tathaich (frequent). (various references)

Sepedi

etela (to visit). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vizita (visiting round), posetiti (come over, come to see, pay a call, pay a visit, see), poseta (call, turn out, turnout, visitation), posećivati (patronize), pohod, obilazak (round, tour, touring), obići (circle, outflank, pass), gostovati, gostovanje, biti u gostima. (various references)

Shona

-tara (to visit). (various references)

Sicilian

visitari (to visit). (various references)

Sotho

chakela. (various references)

Spanish

visitar (attend, call at, call on, call upon, come by, come over, come round, do, frequent, go on a visit, go over, look round, look up, pay a call, see, see over, tour, treat), visita (call, caller, company, guest, is visiting, search, stay, tour, treat, viewing, visitor, you are visiting). (various references)

Sranan

fisiti (attend, call on, guest, see). (various references)

Swazi

kú-vakáshela (to visit). (various references)

Swedish

visit (call), besök (call, stay, visits), hälsa på (go and see, look in, see). (various references)

Tagalog

dumálaw (attend, call on, see), dálaw. (various references)

Tswana

etela. (various references)

Turkish

vizite (sick call), ziyarete gitmek, ziyaret etmek (call, call at, call on, call upon, come by, come over, come round, haunt, look up, make a visit, pay a visit, stop by, wait on, wait upon), ziyaret (call, stay, visitation, visiting), uğramak (call at, call on, call upon, come by, come over, come round, drop around, drop in, drop in on, experience, fall into, incur, look up, meet, put in an appearance, receive, run against, run in, stop by, stop in, sustain, touch at, undergo), teftiş etmek (inspect, review), musallat olmak (bother, impose oneself on, pester), misafirlik, misafir olmak (Lodge, put up), laflamak (cackle, chat, have a chat), gezmek (browse around, get about, go about, hike, itinerate, jaunt, knock about, knock around, perambulate, peregrinate, promenade, range, rove, tour, travel, walk, wander, wander in), çene çalmak (chat, chatter, chew the fat, chew the rag, chinwag, chitchat, gossip, have a gossip, jaw, prattle), çektirmek (cause to draw, grind, grind down, grind out, serve, subject, torture). (various references)

Turkmen 

wizit (r) (call), gцrme-gцrью. (various references)

Ukrainian

тимчасове перебування (sojourn), гостювати (guest), візит, відвідувати, огляд (checkup, conspectus, examination, exploring, inspection, notice, overlook, recension, review, revue, survey), бувати (be). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự thăm viếng sự tham quan, sự thăm hỏi (visitation, visiting), sự khám xét (search), sự đi thăm (visitation). (various references)

Welsh

ymweliad (visitation), ymweld, gofwyo. (various references)

Wolof

seetsi. (various references)

Xhosa

yokuvakasha (To visit). (various references)

Yucatec

ximbatik (attend, call on, see), k'uch ximbal. (various references)

Zulu

-vakashela (attend, call on, see). (various references)

adeamus, adeo, adeodatus, adiada, adierint, adierunt, adieruntque, adii, adiit, adire, adito, aditu, adventu, adventui, adventum, adventus, congressione, frequento, herodiadis, invisa, invisere, inviseret, invisit, inviso, invisus, obitu, obitum, obitus, pliadis, resalutatis, saluta, salutabant, salutabitis, salutandos, salutandum, salutant, salutantes, salutantibus, salutare, salutaret, salutari, salutaris, salutasset, salutat, salutate, salutatis, salutaverint, salutaverit, salutaveritis, salutaverunt, salutaveruntque, salutavit, salutem, salutes, saluto, vis, visa, visi, visita, visitaberis, visitabis, visitabit, visitabitur, visitabo, visitandas, visitandum, visitans, visitare, visitarent, visitaret, visitari, visitas, visitasset, visitasti, visitastis, visitat, visitata, visitator, visitaverit, visitavi, visitavit, visitem, visitemus, visitent, visites, visitet, visitetur, viso, visu, visum, visuri, visurum, visurus, visus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "visit": visitable, visitant, visitants, visitation, visitations, visitatorial, visited, visiter, visiters, visiting, visitor, visitors, visits. (additional references)

Words ending with "visit": revisit. (additional references)

Words containing "visit": intervisitation, intervisitations, revisited, revisiting, revisits, unvisited. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Visit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bisit, icsitm, misit, Nisbit, vaist, vait, vesi, Vesito, vestis, vicit, Vidich, Viis, Viith, vinit, virit, visate, viseat, visi, visia, visin, visio, visir, visita, visite, vist, Vistec, visty, visy, viuit, vivit, Voisin, vtsoft, Xviiith. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: its, sit, tis, vis.

-3 letters: is, it, si, ti.

+1 letter: vibist, visits.

+2 letters: invites, jiviest, qiviuts, revisit, uveitis, vibists, victims, viniest, violist, visited, visiter, visitor, vitrics.

+3 letters: activism, activist, aviarist, cavities, divinest, invitees, inviters, levities, nativism, nativist, ovaritis, oviposit, positive, priviest, revisits, striving, thievish, uvulitis, vanities, veiniest, veristic, verities, vestigia, viewiest, vinosity, violists, virtuosi, visitant, visiters, visiting, visitors, vitalise, vitalism, vitalist, vitamins, vitiates, vitrains, vitrines, vitriols, vividest, vivisect, vulvitis.