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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishvisiten, fromOld Frenchvisiter, fromLatinvīsitō, frequentative ofvīsō(“behold, survey”), fromvideō(“see”).[1] Cognate withOld Saxonwīsōn(“to visit, afflict”), archaicGermanweisen(“to visit, afflict”). Displaced nativeOld Englishsēċan(“to visit”) andsōcn(“a visit”).

The noun is fromFrenchvisite or the verb.[2]Doublet ofvisite.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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visit (third-person singular simple presentvisits,present participlevisiting,simple past and past participlevisited)

  1. (transitive) To habituallygo to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) tocomfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)[from 13th c.]
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To go andmeet (a person) as an act offriendliness orsociability.[from 14th c.]
    She decided tovisit her grandparents for Christmas.
  3. (transitive) Of God: toappear to (someone) tocomfort,bless, orchastise orpunish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)[from 13th c.]
  4. (transitive, now rare) Topunish, to inflictharmupon (someone or something).[from 14th c.]
  5. (transitive) Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: toafflict (someone).[from 14th c.]
    • 1890,James George Frazer,The Golden Bough:
      There used to be a sharp contest as to where the effigy was to be made, for the people thought that the house from which it was carried forth would not bevisited with death that year.
  6. (transitive) To inflictpunishment,vengeance for (an offense)on orupon someone.[from 14th c.]
    • 2007 September 25,Bungie,Halo 3,Microsoft Game Studios,Xbox 360, level/area:Terminal Six (Legendary):
      05-032 was right about one thing: there is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is tovisit utter annihilation on it.
    • 2011 December 2, John Mullan,The Guardian:
      If this were an Ibsen play, we would be thinking of the sins of one generation beingvisited upon another, he said.
  7. (transitive) To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) forworship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)[from 14th c.]
  8. (transitive) Togo to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.[from 15th c.]
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personallyvisited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
    • 2018,VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns‎[1]:
      Each year, millions of peoplevisit the 4,570-meter-high Baishui Glacier in southern China.

Conjugation

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Conjugation ofvisit
infinitive(to)visit
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingularvisitvisited
2nd-personsingularvisit,visitest†visited,visitedst†
3rd-personsingularvisits,visiteth†visited
pluralvisit
subjunctivevisitvisited
imperativevisit—
participlesvisitingvisited

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Translations

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to go and meet (someone)
to inflict—seeinflict
to avenge—seeavenge
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Noun

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visit (pluralvisits)

  1. A single act ofvisiting.
    Next time you're in Manchester, give me avisit.
    We paid a quickvisit to James on the way up to Scotland.
    • 1899,Stephen Crane, chapter 1, inTwelve O'Clock:
      There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodicvisits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”
  2. (medicine, insurance) Ameeting with adoctor at theirsurgery or the doctor's at one'shome.

Derived terms

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Translations

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single act of visiting
meeting with a doctor
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References

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  1. ^“visit,v.”, inOED OnlinePaid subscription required⁠, Oxford:Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  2. ^“visit,n.”, inOED OnlinePaid subscription required⁠, Oxford:Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Latin

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Verb

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vīsit

  1. third-personsingularpresent/perfectactiveindicative ofvīsō
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