visa
/ˈviː.zə/
visa noun: a permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited.
Noun (1)
visa (plural visas)
- A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited.
- I came on a six-month tourist visa.
- Several Sun MySQLers have been denied short stay business visas to Australia - yes, Australia - as they attempted to attend a Linux conference in Hobart, Tasmania. According to a blog post from Kaj Arno, vice president in charge of "database community" at Sun Microsystems, several employees - many...2009 January 13, Cade Metz, “Sun MySQLers barred from Oz”, in The Register, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2020
Verb
visa (third-person singular simple present visas, present participle visaing, simple past and past participle visaed)
- To endorse (a passport, etc.).
- "Let me tell you that I am going to spit into that coffee! Yes, and if you do not get me my passport visaed this very minute, I shall take it to Monsignor myself.”1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth
Proper noun capitalized: Visa
Visa
- A credit card company.
- Got PayPal or Visa, whatever'll please ya
As long as I've got the dough.2003, "Weird Al" Yankovic, eBay (song) - Paying with Visa abroad uses the same high-tech, anti-fraud systems as at home, so your payments are safe wherever you are.2019 July 5 (last accessed), “Visa Abroad”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
- Got PayPal or Visa, whatever'll please ya
- Alternative spelling of visa.
Noun (2) capitalized: Visa
Visa (plural Visas)
- A credit card issued by the credit card company Visa.
- A credit card.
Noun (3) capitalized: VISA
VISA (uncountable)
- Initialism of vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus.
visa meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
visa in Hindi
- permit to enter a country
- वीज़ा vīzā, वीजा vījā, वीसा vīsā
visa in Tamil
- permit to enter a country
- விசா vicā
visa in Marathi
- permit to enter a country
- व्हिसा vhisā
visa in Urdu
- permit to enter a country
- وِیزا vīzā
More languagesFewer languages
- visa in Bengali
- ভিসা bhiśa
- visa in Telugu
- వీసా vīsā
- visa in Malayalam
- വിസ, വിസാ
- visa in Kannada
- ವೀಸಾ, ವೀಸಾವನ್ನು
- visa in Punjabi
- ਵੀਜ਼ਾ, ਵੀਜ਼ੇ
- visa in Gujarati
- વિઝા, વીઝા
- visa in Odia
- ଭିସା
- visa in Sinhala
- වීසා wīsā
- visa in Nepali
- भिसा bhisā
- visa in Pashto
- ويزه viza
- visa in Tagalog
- bisa
- visa in Arabic
- تَأْشِيرَة taʔšīra, فِيزَا fīzā
- visa in Malay
- visa
- visa in Indonesian
- visa
- visa in Thai
- วีซา wii-sâa
- visa in Vietnamese
- thị thực, giấy xuất cảnh, chiếu khán
- visa in Myanmar
- ဗီဇာ bija
Examples of visa in a sentence
- He was turned away at the border because he didn't have a valid visa.
- The newest student visa worker at the startup was a sapio from an IIT.
- Home Affairs minister Tony Burke said his department was reviewing whether it could revoke Jones's visa.
Forms of visa
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | visas |
| plural | Visas |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | visas |
| present participle | visaing |
| past participle | visaed |
| past | visaed |
Origin of visa
From 1831, "official signature or endorsement on a passport," from French visa, from Latin charta vīsa (“paper that has been seen”) from feminine perfect passive of Latin vidēre (“to see”). Compare vision, video, vista.
Coined by the company's founder, Dee Hock, who believed that the word was instantly recognizable in many languages and that it denoted universal acceptance.
Words formed from visa
- bridging visa
- e-visa
- exit visa
- golden visa
- nonvisa
- prisoner visa
- student visa
- tied visa
- tourist visa
- transit visa
- visa-free
- visaless
- visa-on-arrival
- visa run
- working-holiday visa
Phrases with visa
Words that rhyme with visa
Questions about visa
- What does visa mean?
- Visa means a permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited.
- What is visa in Hindi?
- Visa in Hindi is वीज़ा (vīzā), वीजा (vījā), वीसा (vīsā). See Visa meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is visa?
- Visa can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce visa?
- Visa is pronounced /ˈviː.zə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of visa?
- The plural of visa is visas.
Words near visa in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: visa (page history and authors); Visa (page history and authors); VISA (page history and authors); visa (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); visa (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); visa (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); visa (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); visa (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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