visit
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
insurance
medicine
sciences
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: visits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: visiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: visited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: visited
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: visit
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: visit
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: visited
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: visit
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: visitest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: visited
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: visitedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: visits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: visiteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: visited
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: visit
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: visited
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: visit
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: visited
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: visit
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: visiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: visited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: visits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: She decided to visit her grandparents for Christmas.
gloss: Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [God] hath visited and redeemed his people.
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.
gloss: To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something).
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Her life was spared by the clemency of the emperor, but he visited the pomp and treasures of her palace.
gloss: Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
If this were an Ibsen play, we would be thinking of the sins of one generation being visited upon another, he said.
gloss: To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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 doing billets.
Each year, millions of people visit the 4,570-meter-high Baishui Glacier in southern China.
gloss: A single act of visiting.
pos: noun
examples: Next time you're in Manchester, give me a visit.
We paid a quick visit to James on the way up to Scotland.
There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”
gloss: A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.
pos: noun
Related words: unvisited
visitation
visitor
Derived words: visit a spell
closed visit
conjugal visit
educational visit
flying visit
home visit
open visit
pay a visit
state visit
visitation
visitor
working visit
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