VISIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does visit mean? 

• VISIT (noun)
  The noun VISIT has 5 senses:

1. the act of going to see some person or place or thing for a short time

2. a meeting arranged by the visitor to see someone (such as a doctor or lawyer) for treatment or advice

3. the act of visiting in an official capacity (as for an inspection)

4. the act of going to see some person in a professional capacity

5. a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest)

  Familiarity information: VISIT used as a noun is common.

• VISIT (verb)
  The verb VISIT has 8 senses:

1. go to see a place, as for entertainment

2. go to certain places as for sightseeing

3. pay a brief visit

4. come to see in an official or professional capacity

5. impose something unpleasant

6. talk socially without exchanging too much information

7. stay with as a guest

8. assail

  Familiarity information: VISIT used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VISIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of going to see some person or place or thing for a short time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

he dropped by for a visit

Hypernyms ("visit" is a kind of...):

coming together; congress; meeting (the social act of assembling for some common purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "visit"):

visitation (an official visit for inspection or supervision)

site visit (a visit in an official capacity to examine a site to determine its suitability for some enterprise)

call (a brief social visit)

visiting (the activity of making visits)

Derivation:

visit (pay a brief visit)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A meeting arranged by the visitor to see someone (such as a doctor or lawyer) for treatment or advice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

he scheduled a visit to the dentist

Hypernyms ("visit" is a kind of...):

get together; meeting (a small informal social gathering)

Derivation:

visit (come to see in an official or professional capacity)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of visiting in an official capacity (as for an inspection)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("visit" is a kind of...):

coming together; congress; meeting (the social act of assembling for some common purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "visit"):

flying visit (a visit that last for only a very short time)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The act of going to see some person in a professional capacity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

a visit to the dentist

Hypernyms ("visit" is a kind of...):

coming together; congress; meeting (the social act of assembling for some common purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "visit"):

call (a visit in an official or professional capacity)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A temporary stay (e.g., as a guest)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

sojourn; visit

Hypernyms ("visit" is a kind of...):

stay (continuing or remaining in a place or state)

Derivation:

visit (stay with as a guest)

• VISIT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they visit    ... he / she / it visits   
Past simple: visited   
Past participle: visited   
-ing form: visiting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Go to see a place, as for entertainment

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

see; visit

Context example:

We went to see the Eiffel Tower in the morning

Hypernyms (to "visit" is one way to...):

tour (make a tour of a certain place)

Verb group:

see (go to see for a social visit)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "visit"):

take in (visit for entertainment)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

visitant; visitor (someone who visits)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Go to certain places as for sightseeing

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

travel to; visit

Context example:

Did you ever visit Paris?

Hypernyms (to "visit" is one way to...):

jaunt; travel; trip (make a trip for pleasure)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "visit"):

sightsee (visit famous or interesting sights)

frequent; haunt (be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

visiting (the activity of making visits)

visitor (someone who visits)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Pay a brief visit

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

call; call in; visit

Context example:

The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens

Hypernyms (to "visit" is one way to...):

get together; meet (get together socially or for a specific purpose)

Verb group:

call (make a stop in a harbour)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "visit"):

see (go to see for professional or business reasons)

see (go to see for a social visit)

come by; drop by; drop in (visit informally and spontaneously)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot visit Sue

Derivation:

visit (the act of going to see some person or place or thing for a short time)

visitant; visitor (someone who visits)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Come to see in an official or professional capacity

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

inspect; visit

Context example:

The grant administrator visited the laboratory

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

visitation (an official visit for inspection or supervision)

visitor (someone who visits)

visit (a meeting arranged by the visitor to see someone (such as a doctor or lawyer) for treatment or advice)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Impose something unpleasant

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

bring down; impose; inflict; visit

Context example:

The principal visited his rage on the students

Hypernyms (to "visit" is one way to...):

communicate; intercommunicate (transmit thoughts or feelings)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "visit"):

give (inflict as a punishment)

foist (to force onto another)

clamp (impose or inflict forcefully)

intrude; obtrude (thrust oneself in as if by force)

dictate; order; prescribe (issue commands or orders for)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something on somebody

Derivation:

visitation (an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Talk socially without exchanging too much information

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

chaffer; chat; chatter; chew the fat; chit-chat; chitchat; claver; confab; confabulate; gossip; jaw; natter; shoot the breeze; visit

Context example:

the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze

Hypernyms (to "visit" is one way to...):

converse; discourse (carry on a conversation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "visit"):

jawbone; schmoose; schmooze; shmoose; shmooze (talk idly or casually and in a friendly way)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence examples:

Sam and Sue visit
Sam cannot visit Sue

Derivation:

visitor (someone who visits)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Stay with as a guest

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

Every summer, we visited our relatives in the country for a month

Hypernyms (to "visit" is one way to...):

abide; bide; stay (dwell)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

visit (a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest))

visitor (someone who visits)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Assail

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

He was visited with a terrible illness that killed him quickly

Hypernyms (to "visit" is one way to...):

afflict; smite (cause physical pain or suffering in)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

visitation (any disaster or catastrophe)

 Context examples 

What happiness it must be to her good old grandmother and excellent aunt, when she comes to visit them!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

We only get two or three visits of Saturn any one house in our lifetime, and you are almost done with Saturn’s tests and demands to your second house of income.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Lucy went out visiting with her mother, and as they were only duty calls, I did not go.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She is away upon a visit.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It's a major reason people miss days at work or school or visit the doctor.

(Headache, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

“Then I have wasted my time and need not prolong my visit.”

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But these cares of Clerval were made of no avail when I visited the professors.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She wished, however to see the Crofts, and was glad to be within when the visit was returned.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“This is a day to be remembered, my Uriah, I am sure,” said Mrs. Heep, making the tea, “when Master Copperfield pays us a visit.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mary was satisfied with the Parsonage as a present home, and Henry equally ready to lengthen his visit.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)