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visitation

/ˌvɪzɪˈteɪʃən/

visitation noun: the act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.

Noun

visitation (countable and uncountable, plural visitations)

  1. The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.
    • Existing visitor facilities for both frontcountry areas experience crowding during the summer season, when the park receives most of its visitation, […]1995, United States. National Park Service. Denver Service Center, Draft, Frontcountry Development Concept Plan, page I
    • Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]2007, Baxter's Practical Works, Volume 1: A Sum of Practical Theology, and Cases ...
  2. An official visit to inspect or examine something.
  3. An encounter with aliens or supernatural beings such as ghosts.
  4. An affliction or disaster attributed to destiny, or to God.
    • But when the blow comes down in the fulness of expectation; when the bough is smitten while green, and the flower cut down in its spring; when the young and lovely perish, while the eyes, full of light, were fixed on the future,—then, indeed, is the visitation heavy to bear.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 81
  5. The right of a separated or divorced parent to visit a child; access.
  6. A punishment or blessing ordained by God.
  7. An unusual and extensive irruption of a species of animals into another region.

Proper noun capitalized: Visitation

the Visitation

  1. The visit of the Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth; the commemoration of this on May 30th in Eastern Christianity or May 31st in Western Christianity.

visitation meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

visitation in Tamil

மேற் பார்வைத் தேர்வாய்வு

visitation in Urdu

معائنہ, ملاقات, مصیبت

visitation in Malayalam

(official) visit, tour of inspection, survey
സന്ദർശനം, ഔപചാരികസന്ദർശനം, ഔദ്യോഗികസന്ദർശനം, പരിശോധന, മേലന്വേഷണം, പര്യവേക്ഷണം
vision, apparition, appearance
ഭൂതസന്ദർശനം, എതിർപോക്ക്, പിണപ്പിണി, ബാധോപദ്രവം, മരിൾ, മരുൾ
scourge, affliction, bane
ബാധ, പീഡ, ക്ലേശം, കഠോരയാതന, ദെെവശിക്ഷ, അനർത്ഥം

Forms of visitation

pluralvisitations

Plural of visitation: visitations

Origin of visitation

From Anglo-Norman visitacioun, from Old French visitacion, from Latin vīsitātiō. By surface analysis, visit + -ation.

Words formed from visitation

Phrases with visitation

Words that rhyme with visitation

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Questions about visitation

What does visitation mean?
Visitation means the act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.
What is visitation in Tamil?
Visitation in Tamil is மேற் பார்வைத் தேர்வாய்வு. See Visitation meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is visitation?
Visitation can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce visitation?
Visitation is pronounced /ˌvɪzɪˈteɪʃən/.
What is the plural of visitation?
The plural of visitation is visitations.

Words near visitation in the dictionary

  1. Visitandine
  2. Visitandines
  3. visitant
  4. visitants
  5. visitas
  6. visitation
  7. visitational
  8. visitations
  9. visitator
  10. visitatorial
  11. visitators

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: visitation (page history and authors); Visitation (page history and authors); visitation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); visitation (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); visitation (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset 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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