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visitor
/ˈvɪzɪtɚ/
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What does visitor mean?
noun
- Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.
- Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.
- Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.
More meanings (5)
noun
- A person authorized to visit an institution to see that it is being managed properly.
- An extraterrestrial being on Earth.
- An object which lands or passes by Earth or its orbit.
- A head or overseer of an institution such as a college (in which case, equivalent to the university's chancellor) or cathedral or hospital, who resolves disputes, gives ceremonial speeches, etc.
- The object in the visitor pattern that performs an operation on the elements of a structure one by one.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈvɪzɪtɚ/
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See this word in context.
He did not rise to meet his visitor, but held out a cold hand and bade him welcome in a changed voice.
Sola asked us if we had had a visitor during her absence, and seemed much surprised when we answered in the negative.
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The nocturnal visitor was a young man, frail and thin, with a black moustache, which intensified the deadly pallor of his face.
He was a frequent visitor, and as he had not called for some days it was likely he would come that evening.
Of course, the young man escorted the beautiful quadroon home that evening, and became the favorite visitor at the house of Agnes.