Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that visits: Sunday afternoon visitors; lost the game to the visitors.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who visits. Specifically— One who comes or goes to see or stay with another, as in civility or friendship.
- n. A superior or person authorized to visit a corporation or any institution, for the purpose of seeing that the laws and regulations are observed, or that the duties and conditions prescribed by the founder or by law are duly performed or executed.
- n. In zoology, a visitant. Synonyms Visitor, Caller, Guest. Caller regards a person as coming to see another for a short interview of civility, formality, or friendship: as, she devoted the afternoon to receiving callers. Visitor regards the person as coming to see another, but making a longer stay than a coller and enjoying more of social intercourse. Guest regards the person as admitted to hospitality, and hence generally as welcome.
Wiktionary
- n. Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.
- n. Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.
- n. sports, usually in the plural Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.
- n. ufology An extraterrestrial being on Earth for any reason.
- n. An object which lands or passes by Earth or its orbit.
GNU Webster's 1913
- One who visits; one who comes or goes to see another, as in civility or friendship.
- A superior, or a person lawfully appointed for the purpose, who makes formal visits of inspection to a corporation or an institution. See Visit, v. t., 2, and Visitation, n., 2.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who visits
Examples
“_ The visitor will not give him o'er so] Why Dr. Warburton should change _visitor_ to _'vizer_ for _adviser_, I cannot discover.”
“Move: Choreographing You, which opened last week, sets out to change that, with a series of installations in which the visitor is an active, and at times hyperactive, participant.”
“This time the visitor is a local lawyer with an interesting story.”
“Sending something home with a visitor is a real treat for them.”
“Sawmill Analytics allows you to choose what you define as a visitor - by default the client IP is used, but you can use a cookie”
“The whole place seems to be in a state of perpetual motion, and the occasional visitor is apt to have a feeling of giddiness.”
The Huffington Post: Hester Street Fair Opens In Style (PHOTOS)
“But if I were going to Tokyo tomorrow, I would, on arrival, hold off on the "maid cafes" in the nerds 'electronic hive of Akihabara, on the Hysteric Glamour fashions around Harajuku, even on the gleaming shops of the Ginza that have long made Tokyo seem an early visitor from the 23rd century.”
“How would a visitor from the future look to a courtier in Louis XIV's Versailles?”
“What would the eighteenth century look like to a visitor from the twenty-second?”
“SEO federated searches findability information architecture new working models participation models public domain visitor experience”
Soliciting conversation and listening actively while isolating discussion
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘visitor’.
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ghost
This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
( open list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/macabrephantom, spectral, specter, spectre, spooky, poltergeist, haunt, spirit, banshee, cryptic, shadow, phantasm and 311 more...
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Writing from another world
Writing systems (alphabets, syllabaries, etc.) from fiction (e.g. Tengwar) or otherwise from off the beaten track (e.g. Passing the River): inspired by omniglot.com/writing/fictional.php and omnigl...
tengwar, ancients alphabet, ath, atlantean, aurek-besh, aurebesh, cirth, d'ni, dragon runes, daedric, futurama alien al..., gargish and 32 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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The Gang of Four
visitor, template, strategy, state, observer, memento, mediator, iterator, interpreter, command, chain of responsi..., proxy and 13 more...
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Dactyls
Three syllable words that contain a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.
/ - -poetry, visitor, promises, jealousy, endlessly, mockingbird, expressive, article, particle, blessedly, murmuring, fantasy and 1 more...
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OM3 Lesson 36
exit, feel like, Baskin Robbins, banana split, share, coupon, good for, deal, scoop, pistachio, cup, cone and 14 more...
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Academic positions
The 'who does what' vocabulary of university life.
undergraduate, postgraduate, graduate, chancellor, vice-chancellor, bursar, lecturer, reader, professor, provost, privatdozent, postdoc and 14 more...
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