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pay a visit

pay a visit verb: to visit.

Verb

pay a visit (third-person singular simple present pays a visit, present participle paying a visit, simple past and past participle paid a visit)

  1. (idiomatic) To visit.
    • In the succeeding years I paid many more visits to Scotland; this was made easy even for those of modest means, by that wonderful institution, the "Inverness Tourist." For £3 one could get a ticket from London to Inverness and back with a wide choice of routes, […].1957 July, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 496
    • Some protesters say the constitution also gives too much power to the king, who paid a rare visit to Thailand on Thursday for ceremonies honouring his grandfather, Prince Mahidol Adulyadej. The king has spent most of his time in Europe since taking the throne nearly four years ago.2020 September 25, Reuters Staff, “Thai republican hashtag trends after constitution change delayed”, in Reuters, Reuters, retrieved 25 Sep 2020
  2. (euphemistic, idiomatic) To go to the toilet.

pay a visit meaning in Tamil and Bengali

pay a visit in Tamil

to visit
வருகைதா varukaitā

pay a visit in Bengali

পরিদর্শন করা, শৌচাগারে যাওয়া

Forms of pay a visit

third-person singular presentpays a visit
present participlepaying a visit
past participlepaid a visit
pastpaid a visit

Questions about pay a visit

What does pay a visit mean?
Pay a visit means to visit.
What is pay a visit in Tamil?
Pay a visit in Tamil is வருகைதா (varukaitā). See Pay a visit meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pay a visit?
Pay a visit is a verb.
What is the past tense of pay a visit?
The past tense of pay a visit is paid a visit.

Words near pay a visit in the dictionary

  1. Paxtons
  2. Paxtor
  3. Paxtors
  4. paxwax
  5. pay
  6. pay a visit
  7. pay advice
  8. pay advices
  9. pay and display
  10. pay as you earn
  11. pay attention

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pay a visit (page history and authors); pay a visit (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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