VISITANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does visitant mean? 

• VISITANT (noun)
  The noun VISITANT has 1 sense:

1. someone who visits

  Familiarity information: VISITANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VISITANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who visits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

visitant; visitor

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

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

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

boulevardier (a visitor of a city boulevard (especially in Paris))

caller; company (a social or business visitor)

guest; invitee (a visitor to whom hospitality is extended)

visiting fireman (an important or distinguished visitor)

Derivation:

visit (pay a brief visit)

visit (go to see a place, as for entertainment)

 Context examples 

What visitant from the gloom of the deep was I to behold?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I wish I could believe them to be only such: I wish it more now than ever; since even you cannot explain to me the mystery of that awful visitant.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I rang the bell, for I wanted a candle; and I wanted, too, to get an account of this visitant.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)