Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

visitor

/ˈvɪzɪtɚ/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.01 in modern English

Syllables: vis-it-or
IPA: /ˈvɪzɪtɚ/

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.

noun

Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.

noun

Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.

noun

A person authorized to visit an institution to see that it is being managed properly.

noun

An extraterrestrial being on Earth.

noun

An object which lands or passes by Earth or its orbit.

noun

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.

British usage

noun

The object in the visitor pattern that performs an operation on the elements of a structure one by one.

Example Sentences

"He ventured to raise his eyes again, and found his supernatural visitor confronting him in an erect attitude, with its chain wound over and about its arm."
""'Tis some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door— / Only this, and nothing more.""
"There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished."
"The Riley Packaging plant in Uganda is quite a sight. From wall to wall and floor to ceiling, it is crammed with vast rolls of paper. A visitor feels like an ant gazing at stacks of toilet rolls."
"Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted."
"Belgrade knew how to show visitors a good time, thanks to its fashionable, somewhat raucous nightclub and bar scene."

Etymology

Partly from Middle English visiter, visitere, equivalent to visit + -er; and partly from Middle English visitour, from Anglo-Norman visitour, from Old French visetëor. By surface analysis, visit + -or.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: visiter, visitour, visetëor

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈvɪzɪtɚ/
British English: /ˈvɪzɪtə/

Usage

British usage

Inflected Forms

visitors (plural) visitour (alternative) visiter (alternative)

Derived Forms

covisitor nonvisitor visitorial visitorship visitress

Phrases

apostolic visitor health visitor monthly visitor star visitor visitor design pattern visitor team

Synonyms

visitant

Questions

How do you pronounce visitor?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈvɪzɪtɚ/.
What does visitor mean?: Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.
Where does visitor come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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