visit
pronunciation
How to pronounce visit in British English:
UK [ˈvɪzɪt]
How to pronounce visit in American English:
US [ˈvɪzɪt]
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- Noun:
- the act of going to see some person or place or thing for a short time
- a meeting arranged by the visitor to see someone (such as a doctor or lawyer) for treatment or advice
- the act of visiting in an official capacity (as for an inspection)
- the act of going to see some person in a professional capacity
- a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest)
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- Verb:
- visit a place, as for entertainment
- go to certain places as for sightseeing
- pay a brief visit
- come to see in an official or professional capacity
- impose something unpleasant
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
- stay with as a guest
- assail
Word Origin
- visit
- visit: [13] Visit is one of a large family of English words that go back to Latin vidēre ‘see’. This in turn was descended from the Indo-European base *woid-, *weid-, *wid-, which also produced English wise and wit. Other members of the family include envy, revise [16], survey, video [20], view, visa, visage, visible [14], vision [13], visor, vista [17], and visual [15]. Visit itself comes from the Latin derivative visitāre, which meant literally ‘go to see’.=> envy, revise, survey, video, view, visa, visible, vision, visor, vista, visual, wise, wit
- visit (v.)
- c. 1200, "come to (a person) to comfort or benefit," from Old French visiter "to visit; inspect, examine; afflict" (12c.) and directly from Latin visitare "to go to see, come to inspect," frequentative of visere "behold, visit" (a person or place), from past participle stem of videre "to see, notice, observe" (see vision). Originally of the deity, later of pastors and doctors (c. 1300), general sense of "pay a call" is from mid-13c. Meaning "come upon, afflict" (in reference to sickness, punishment, etc.) is recorded in English from mid-14c. Related: Visited; visiting.
- visit (n.)
- 1620s, "friendly or formal call upon someone," from visit (v.) and from French visite (n.). From 1800 as "short or temporary trip to some place." With pay (v.) since 1650s.
Example
- 1. That was my first visit to chinatown .
- 2. Where will president barack obama visit first ?
- 3. My mother hopes to visit her some day .
- 4. About 7000 tourists visit each year .
- 5. And now they must decide which set of parents to visit .