revisit
/ɹiːˈvɪzɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.36 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An act of revisiting; a second or subsequent visit.
Example Sentences
- "[W]hat may this meane, / That thou, dead corſe, againe in compleate ſteele, / Reuiſſits thus the glimſes of the Moone, / Making night hideous, and vve fooles of nature, / So horridely to ſhake our diſpoſition, / VVith thoughts beyond the reaches of our ſoules?"
- "Thou, Kind Redeemer, toucht to ſee / So ſad a Sight, ſuch moving Miſery, / Didſt ſoon determine to diſpel / Theſe Shades of Death, and Gloom of Hell: / And ſo to reviſit with Thy Heav'nly Light / Loſt Man, bewilder'd in Infernal Night."
- "On November 21 the restored Highland "Jones Goods" 4-6-0, No. 103, revisited its old haunts when it worked a Stephenson Locomotive Society special from Glasgow (Buchanan Street) to Blair Atholl and back; [...]."
- "On my revisit to the lady, I found her almost as much a sufferer of joy as she had sometimes been from grief […]."
Etymology
From Middle English revisite, from Middle French revisiter and Latin revīsitāre. By surface analysis, re- + visit.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: revisite, revisiter, revīsitāre