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visitant

/ˈvɪzɪtənt/

visitant noun: one who visits; a guest; a visitor.

Noun

visitant (plural visitants)

  1. One who visits; a guest; a visitor.
    • Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness, / That is not kept in chains and close-pent rooms, / But in fair lightsome lodgings, and is girt / With the wild noise of prattling visitants, / Which makes it lunatic beyond all cure.1612-13, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi Act I, Scene III
    • One visit is enough to begin an acquaintance; and this point is gained by it, that when the visitant comes again, he is no more a stranger.1678, Robert South, “Prevention of Sin an unvaluable Mercy: or A sermon preached upon that subject on 1 Sam. XXV.32, 33”, in Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions, volume 2, Oxford University...
  2. A spectre or ghost.
    • Matsumura felt almost sure that his ghostly visitant had been none other than the Soul of the Mirror.1905, Lafcadio Hearn, “The Mirror Maiden”, in The Romance of the Milky Way and Other Studies & Stories, Houghton Mifflin, page 134
    • In the afternoon, Aaron felt the cypresses rising dark about him, like so many high visitants from an old, lost, lost subtle world, where men had the wonder of demons about them, the aura of demons, such as still clings to the cypresses, in Tuscany,1922, D. H. Lawrence, chapter XIX, in Aaron's Rod, New York: Thomas Seltzer, page 310
  3. A migratory bird that makes a temporary stop somewhere.
    • Reëstablishment of such facilities would probably soon draw occasional visitants in special need of rest in their desert flights.1964, Alden Holmes Miller, Robert Cyril Stebbins, chapter 5, in The Lives of Desert Animals in Joshua Tree National Monument, University of California Press, page 49

Adjective

visitant (comparative more visitant, superlative most visitant)

  1. Visiting.
    • Now the plots unravell’d: I begin to have a knowledge of the visitant Kinsman that us’d to molest us.1677, Thomas d’Urfey, Madam Fickle, or, The Witty False One, London: James Magnes & Richard Bentley, Act III, Scene 2, p. 33
    • Sermons were not encouraged, as the demand on the use of the famous altar by visitant priests and their pilgrims was heavy on Sunday mornings, and even a short sermon held up the next Mass on the list.1965, Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate, London: Macmillan, Part Two, Chapter 6

visitant meaning in Tamil and Urdu

visitant in Tamil

புலம்பெயர் பறவை, வருகையாளர் வந்து காண்பவர், சென்று காண்கிற வருகை தருகிற

visitant in Urdu

زائر

Examples of visitant in a sentence

  • She therefore reſolved to rid herſelf of Jones, he being the Viſitant, to whom ſhe thought the leaſt Ceremony was due.1749, Henry Fielding, “Which Consists of Visiting”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume V, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […]...
  • Treadhill, stringy but pleasant, met the visitants in the kitchen, and whined, "He’s failing fast. […]"1949, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 2, in The God-Seeker, New York: Popular Library, page 13:

Forms of visitant

Noun
pluralvisitants
Adjective
comparativemore visitant
superlativemost visitant

Origin of visitant

From French visitant, present participle of visiter.

Questions about visitant

What does visitant mean?
Visitant means one who visits; a guest; a visitor.
What is visitant in Tamil?
Visitant in Tamil is புலம்பெயர் பறவை, வருகையாளர் வந்து காண்பவர், சென்று காண்கிற வருகை தருகிற. See Visitant meaning in Tamil.
How do you use visitant in a sentence?
She therefore reſolved to rid herſelf of Jones, he being the Viſitant, to whom ſhe thought the leaſt Ceremony was due.
What part of speech is visitant?
Visitant can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce visitant?
Visitant is pronounced /ˈvɪzɪtənt/.
What is the plural of visitant?
The plural of visitant is visitants.

Words near visitant in the dictionary

  1. visitability
  2. visitable
  3. Visitacion
  4. Visitandine
  5. Visitandines
  6. visitant
  7. visitants
  8. visitas
  9. visitation
  10. visitational
  11. visitations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: visitant (page history and authors); visitant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); visitant (Urdu 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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