Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A visitor; a guest.
- n. A supernatural being; a ghost or specter.
- n. A migratory bird that stops in a particular place for a limited period of time.
- adj. Visiting.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Acting the part of a visitor; paying visits; visiting.
- n. One who visits; one who goes or comes to see another; one who is a guest in the house of a friend; a visitor.
- n. In ornithology, a migratory bird which comes to and stays in a place or region during a part of the year: opposed to resident: as, the snowy owl is a winter visitant from the north in the United States. Rare or irregular visitants are termed stragglers. See straggler, 2.
- n. [capitalized] A member of a Roman Catholic order of nuns, founded at Annecy in Savoy by Francis de Sales and Mme. de Chantal in 1610. The order spread in various countries, and has been efficient in the education of young girls. The Visitants are also called
Salesians , Order of the Visitation, Nuns of the Visitation, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. A visitor or guest.
- n. A spectre or ghost.
- n. A migratory bird that makes a temporary stop somewhere.
- adj. Visiting.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who visits; a guest; a visitor.
- adj. Visiting.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who visits
Etymologies
- From French visitant, present participle of visiter. (Wiktionary)
- Latin visitāns, visitant-, present participle of visitāre, to go to see; see visit. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Possessed of more than a cursory knowledge of astronomy, he took a sick man's pleasure in speculating as to the dwellers on the unseen worlds of those incredibly remote suns, to haunt whose houses of light life came forth, a shy visitant from the rayless crypts of matter.”
“What visitant from the gloom of the deep was I to behold?”
“For two hours after our arrival, Mr.C. displayed a good deal of his brilliant conversation, when he was listened to with surprise and delight by the whole circle; but at this time, unluckily, Lady -- was announced, when Mrs. Hannah, from politeness, devoted herself to her titled visitant, while the little folks retired to”
“For two hours after our arrival, Mr.C. displayed a good deal of his brilliant conversation, when he was listened to with surprise and delight by the whole circle; but at this time, unluckily, Lady ” was announced, when Mrs. Hannah, from politeness, devoted herself to her titled visitant, while the little folks retired to a snug window with one or two of the Misses More, and there had their own agreeable converse.”
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey
“I was wakened, after having slept uneasily for some hours, by some person shaking me rudely by the shoulder; a small lamp burned in my room, and by its light, to my horror and amazement, I discovered that my visitant was the self-same blind old lady who had so terrified me a few weeks before.”
“It struck me as an odd thing, that even then, considering how prone to superstition persons in his rank of life usually are, he did not seem to suspect any thing supernatural in the occurrence; and, on the contrary, was thoroughly persuaded that his visitant was a living person, who had got into the house by some hidden entrance.”
“She might seem, indeed, like himself, rather a "visitant" than an inhabitant of this planet, and their courtship not unlike one of his own stories of half immaterial lovers who go hand in hand, with sentiments for sentences and great heedlessness of mortal matters, to an idyllic union of hearts.”
“Adapted from the entry for 'visitant' in the 1828 Noah Webster's Dictionary of the English Language.”
“Possessed of more than a cursory knowledge of astronomy, he took a sick man's pleasure in speculating as to the dwellers on the unseen worlds of those incredibly remote suns, to haunt whose houses of light, life came forth, a shy visitant, from the rayless crypts of matter.”
“It was the face of the spirit visitant, chaste with wisdom, lighted by a splendour of power and calm.”
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