Visitor Meaning
/ˈvɪzɪtə/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounSomeone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.
nounSomeone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.
Sentence Examples
The visitor sat across from me.
You should prepare a room for the visitor.
He is a frequent visitor to this country.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The guest was a foreign ____, not a local resident.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The local museum attracts many thousands of ____ every single year, especially during the busy summer months today.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave I. Marley’s Ghost.”, in A Christmas Carol. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 35:
""'Tis some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door— / Only this, and nothing more.""
— 1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review, volume I, number II, New York, N.Y.; London: Wiley & Putnam, […], →OCLC, page 143:
"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."
— 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
"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."
— 2023 February 23, “A guide in Africa”, in The Economist, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2023:
"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."
— 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The guest was a foreign ____, not a local resident.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The local museum attracts many thousands of ____ every single year, especially during the busy summer months today.