visitor

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English

Alternative forms

• visitour (obsolete)
• visiter (archaic)

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪzɪtə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪzɪtɚ/
• Hyphenation: vis‧it‧or
• Rhymes: -ɪzɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

visitor (plural visitors)

1. Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.
2. Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.
3. (sports, usually in the plural) Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.
4. (law) A person authorized to visit an institution to see that it is being managed properly.
5. (ufology, specifically) An extraterrestrial being on Earth.
   • 2004, Carol Schwartz Ellis, Sean Redmond (editor), With Eyes Uplifted: Space Aliens as Sky Gods in Liquid Metal: The Science Fiction Film Reader, Wallflower Press, page 145:

     The visitor in Man Facing South-east claims pure altruism; Rantes (Hugo Soto) wants to alleviate the suffering of the poor and helpless.
6. An object which lands or passes by Earth or its orbit.
7. (British) 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.
8. (software engineering) The object in the visitor pattern that performs an operation on the elements of a structure one by one.

Synonyms

• visitant

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• ivorist

Latin

Verb

vīsitor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of vīsitō