Visit Meaning
/ˈvɪzɪt/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
verbTo go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
Sentence Examples
Why don't you come visit us?
I'll give you a call before I visit you.
My parents are coming to visit me next week.
CEFR Practice Quiz
She wants to ____ her friend in the hospital, not avoid her.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We are planning to ____ our grand parents in the countryside next weekend to enjoy the fresh mountain air today.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"[God] hath visited and redeemed his people."
— 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:68:
"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."
— 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ruth 1:6:
"Her life was spared by the clemency of the emperor, but he visited the pomp and treasures of her palace."
— 1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 68:
"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."
— 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough:
"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."
— 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Terminal Six (Legendary):
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She wants to ____ her friend in the hospital, not avoid her.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We are planning to ____ our grand parents in the countryside next weekend to enjoy the fresh mountain air today.