visit
/ˈvɪzɪt/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.04 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
Transitive verb
verb
To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
Intransitive verb; Transitive verb
verb
Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "She decided to visit her grandparents for Christmas."
- "[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."
- "Her life was spared by the clemency of the emperor, but he visited the pomp and treasures of her palace."
- "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."
- "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."
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.
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Inflected Forms
visits (present, singular)
visiting (participle, present)
visited (participle, past)
visited (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
visited (first person, past)
visitest (archaic, present)
visited (past, second person)
visitedst (archaic, past)
visiteth (archaic, present)
visited (past, singular)