visit
Syllables: vis·it/ˈvɪzɪt/
visit verb: to habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.).
Verb
visit (third-person singular simple present visits, present participle visiting, simple past and past participle visited)
- To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
- To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
- She decided to visit her grandparents for Christmas.
- Synonyms:
- call on
- Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
- [God] hath visited and redeemed his people.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:68
- Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ruth 1:6
- To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something).
- Her life was spared by the clemency of the emperor, but he visited the pomp and treasures of her palace.1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 68
- Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).
- 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 be visited with death that year.1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough
- To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone.
- 05-032 was right about one thing: there is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to visit utter annihilation on it.2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Terminal Six (Legendary)
- If this were an Ibsen play, we would be thinking of the sins of one generation being visited upon another, he said.2011 December 2, John Mullan, The Guardian
- To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
- To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.
- 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, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- Each year, millions of people visit the 4,570-meter-high Baishui Glacier in southern China.2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
Noun
visit (plural visits)
visit meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
visit in Hindi
- to go and meet (someone)
- पधारना padhārnā
visit in Tamil
- வருகை, பார்க்க செல்லுதல், சந்திப்பு, சென்று சந்தி, வந்து பார், மேற்பார்வையிடு
visit in Marathi
- भेट, भेट द्या
visit in Urdu
- single act of visiting
- آمَد āmad, زِیارَت ziyārat
More languagesFewer languages
- visit in Bengali
- অভ্যাগম, অভ্যাগমন, ক্ষতিসাধনার্থ গমন, বাসার্থ গমন
- visit in Telugu
- చూడు cūḍu, చూచు cūcu, దర్శించు darśiñcu, సందర్శిమ్చు sandarśimcu
- visit in Malayalam
- സന്ദർശിക്കുക sandaṟśikkuka, സന്ദർശനം sandaṟśanaṁ
- visit in Kannada
- ಕಾಣ್ಕೆ, ಹೋಗಿ ಕಾಣು, ಬಿದ್ದಿನವನಾಗಿರು, ಒರೆದು ನೋಡು
- visit in Punjabi
- درشن darśan, پھرنا phirnā, گھمنا ghummṇā
- visit in Gujarati
- મુલાકાત લો, મુલાકાત
- visit in Odia
- ପରିଦର୍ଶନ କରନ୍ତୁ, ପରିଦର୍ଶନ, ଗସ୍ତ କରନ୍ତୁ
- visit in Sanskrit
- समि sami
- visit in Nepali
- पुग्नु pugnu
- visit in Pashto
- زيارت zyārat, ديدن didan, ليده lidǝ
- visit in Tagalog
- dumalaw, dalawin, bumisita, bisitahin
- visit in Arabic
- زَارَ zāra, زِيَارَة ziyāra
- visit in Malay
- lawat
- visit in Indonesian
- kunjung, kunjungan
- visit in Persian
- دیدن كردن didan kardan, بازدید کردن bâzdid kardan
- visit in Thai
- หา hǎa, เยี่ยม yîiam
- visit in Vietnamese
- thăm, đi thăm
- visit in Myanmar
- အိမ်လည် imlany
Examples of visit in a sentence
- Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town.1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:
Synonyms of visit
Forms of visit
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | visits |
| present participle | visiting |
| past participle | visited |
| past | visited |
| second-person singular present (archaic) | visitest |
| second-person singular past (archaic) | visitedst |
| third-person singular present (archaic) | visiteth |
| Noun | |
| plural | visits |
Origin of visit
From Middle English visiten, from Old French visiter, from Latin vīsitō, frequentative of vīsō (“behold, survey”), from videō (“see”). Cognate with Old Saxon wīsōn (“to visit, afflict”), archaic German weisen (“to visit, afflict”). Displaced native Old English sēċan (“to visit”) and sōcn (“a visit”). The noun is from French visite or the verb. Doublet of visite.
Words formed from visit
Phrases with visit
Words that rhyme with visit
Questions about visit
- What does visit mean?
- Visit means to habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.).
- What is visit in Hindi?
- Visit in Hindi is पधारना (padhārnā). See Visit meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use visit in a sentence?
- Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
- What part of speech is visit?
- Visit can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce visit?
- Visit is pronounced /ˈvɪzɪt/.
- What is the past tense of visit?
- The past tense of visit is visited.
Words near visit in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: visit (page history and authors); visit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); visit (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); visit (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); visit (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); درشن (Punjabi) (page history and authors); visit (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); visit (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); समि (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); पुग्नु (Nepali) (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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