Visit - Wiktionary

See also: visít

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English visiten, from Old French visiter, from Latin vīsitō, frequentative of vīsō (“behold, survey”), from videō (“see”).[1] 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.[2] Doublet of visite.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˈvɪzɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪzɪt
• Hyphenation: vis‧it

Verb

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visit (third-person singular simple present visits, present participle visiting, simple past and past participle visited)

1. (transitive) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) [from 13th c.]
2. (transitive, intransitive) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability. [from 14th c.] She decided to visit her grandparents for Christmas.
3. (transitive) Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) [from 13th c.]
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:68:[God] hath visited and redeemed his people.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ruth 1:6: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.
4. (transitive, now rare) To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something). [from 14th c.]
   • 1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 68:Her life was spared by the clemency of the emperor, but he visited the pomp and treasures of her palace.
5. (transitive) Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone). [from 14th c.]
   • 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough: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.
6. (transitive) To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone. [from 14th c.]
   • 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Terminal Six (Legendary):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.
   • 2011 December 2, John Mullan, The Guardian:If this were an Ibsen play, we would be thinking of the sins of one generation being visited upon another, he said.
7. (transitive) To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) [from 14th c.]
8. (transitive) To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc. [from 15th c.]
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
   • 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns‎[1]:Each year, millions of people visit the 4,570-meter-high Baishui Glacier in southern China.

Conjugation

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infinitive	(to) visit
present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	visit	visited
2nd-person singular	visit, visitest†	visited, visitedst†
3rd-person singular	visits, visiteth†	visited
plural	visit
subjunctive	visit	visited
imperative	visit	—
participles	visiting	visited

† Archaic or obsolete.

Synonyms

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• (go and meet): call on

Derived terms

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• visit a spell

Translations

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Afrikaans: besoek (af) Albanian: vizitoj (sq) Altai: Southern Altai: барып келер (barïp keler), келип барар (kelip barar) Arabic: زَارَ (ar) (zāra) Egyptian Arabic: زار (zār) Moroccan Arabic: زار (zār) South Levantine Arabic: زار (zār) Armenian: այցելել (hy) (aycʻelel) Azerbaijani: ziyarət etmək, baş çəkmək Basque: bisitatu Belarusian: наве́дваць impf (navjédvacʹ), наве́даць pf (navjédacʹ) Bulgarian: посеща́вам (bg) impf (poseštávam), посетя́ (bg) pf (posetjá), навестя́вам (bg) impf (navestjávam), навестя́ pf (navestjá) Burmese: အိမ်လည် (my) (imlany) Catalan: visitar (ca) Cebuano: bisita Cherokee: ᎠᏩᏛᎯᏙᎭ (awadvhidoha) Chinese: Mandarin: 訪問 / 访问 (zh) (fǎngwèn), 看望 (zh) (kànwàng), 參觀 / 参观 (zh) (cānguān), 來訪 / 来访 (zh) (láifǎng) Czech: navštěvovat (cs) impf, navštívit (cs) pf Danish: besøge (da) Dutch: bezoeken (nl), opzoeken (nl) Esperanto: viziti Estonian: külastama Finnish: käydä (fi), vierailla (fi) French: visiter (fr), rendre visite (fr) Galician: visitar (gl) Georgian: წვევა (c̣veva), ნახვა (naxva), მონახულება (monaxuleba) German: besuchen (de) Central Franconian: besöke Swabian: bsuacha Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍃𐍉𐌽 (gaweisōn) Greek: επισκέπτομαι (el) (episképtomai) Ancient Greek: ἐπιφοιτάω (epiphoitáō) Greenlandic: pulaarpoq, pulaarpaa Hebrew: בִּיקֵּר \ בִּקֵּר (he) (bikér) Hiligaynon: butho, bisita, duaw Hindi: पधारना (hi) (padhārnā) Hungarian: meglátogat (hu) Icelandic: heimsækja (is) Ido: vizitar (io) Ilocano: bumisita, mamisita, bisitaen Indonesian: kunjung (id) Ingrian: männä veeraisse, tulla veeraisse Interlingua: visitar Irish: ar cuairt (visiting, on a visit) Italian: visitare (it) Japanese: 訪れる (ja) (おとずれる, otozureru), 訪ねる (ja) (たずねる, tazuneru), 訪問する (ja) (ほうもんする, hōmon surú) Kapampangan: dalo, akit Kazakh: келіп кету (kelıp ketu), келіп тұру (kelıp tūru), бару (kk) (baru), келу (kk) (kelu) Khmer: ងើត (km) (ngəət) Korean: 방문하다 (ko) (bangmunhada), 찾아가다 (ko) (chajagada) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: میوانی (mîwanî) Kyrgyz: баруу (ky) (baruu), келүү (ky) (kelüü) Lao: ຢາມ (lo) (yām), ຢື້ຢາມ (yư̄ yām), ຢ້ຽມ (yīam) Latin: vīsō, vīsitō Latvian: apmeklēt, apciemot Lithuanian: lankyti (lt), aplankyti Macedonian: посе́тува impf (posétuva), по́сети pf (póseti) Malay: lawat (ms) Malayalam: സന്ദർശിക്കുക (ml) (sandaṟśikkuka) Māori: toro Mirandese: bejitar, besitar Mongolian: Cyrillic: айлчлах (mn) (ajlčlax), зочлох (mn) (zočlox) Norwegian: Bokmål: besøke (no) Nynorsk: gjeste Old English: sēċan Pangasinan: dalaw Papiamentu: bishitá Persian: دیدن كردن (didan kardan), بازدید کردن (fa) (bâzdid kardan) Piedmontese: visité Polish: odwiedzać (pl) impf, odwiedzić (pl) pf, złożyć wizytę, nawiedzić (pl) pf (archaic) Portuguese: visitar (pt) Quechua: watukuy Romanian: vizita (ro) Russian: посеща́ть (ru) impf (poseščátʹ), посети́ть (ru) pf (posetítʹ), навеща́ть (ru) impf (naveščátʹ), навести́ть (ru) pf (navestítʹ) Sami: Northern Sami: fitnat, gallet Scottish Gaelic: tadhail Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: посјећи́вати impf, по̀сјетити pf Latin: posjećívati impf, pòsjetiti (sh) pf Slovak: navštevovať impf, navštíviť pf Slovene: obiskovati impf, obiskati (sl) pf Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: woglědaś Spanish: visitar (es) Swedish: besöka (sv) Tagalog: dumalaw, dalawin, bumisita, bisitahin Tajik: боздид кардан (bozdid kardan), зиёрат кардан (ziyorat kardan) Telugu: చూడు (te) (cūḍu), చూచు (te) (cūcu), దర్శించు (te) (darśiñcu), సందర్శిమ్చు (sandarśimcu), సందర్శకుడు (sandarśakuḍu) Thai: หา (th) (hǎa), เยี่ยม (th) (yîiam) Tibetan: འཚམས་འདྲི་བྱེད ('tshams 'dri byed), འཚམས་འདྲི་བྱེད་པ ('tshams 'dri byed pa) Tocharian B: läk- Turkish: ziyaret etmek (tr) Ottoman Turkish: زیارت ایتمك (ziyâret etmek) Ukrainian: відві́дувати impf (vidvíduvaty), відві́дати pf (vidvídaty) Uzbek: tashrif buyurmoq Vietnamese: thăm (vi), đi thăm Volapük: visitön (vo) Welsh: ymweld (cy) Yiddish: באַזוכן (bazukhn), קומען צו גאַסט (kumen tsu gast)

to inflict — see inflict to avenge — see avenge The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations. Translations to be checked

Woiwurrung: (please verify) du-wan-koo-nongi

Noun

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visit (plural visits)

1. A single act of visiting. Next time you're in Manchester, give me a visit. We paid a quick visit to James on the way up to Scotland.
   • 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”
2. (medicine, insurance) A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.

Derived terms

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• closed visit
• conjugal visit
• educational visit
• flying visit
• home visit
• open visit
• pay a visit
• state visit
• visit a spell
• visitation
• visitor
• working visit

Translations

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Albanian: vizitë (sq) f Arabic: زِيَارَة f (ziyāra) Egyptian Arabic: زيارة f (ziyāra) Armenian: այց (hy) (aycʻ), այցելություն (hy) (aycʻelutʻyun) Azerbaijani: ziyarət Belarusian: візі́т (be) m (vizít), наве́дванне n (navjédvannje) Bulgarian: визи́та (bg) f (vizíta), посеще́ние (bg) n (posešténie) Catalan: visita (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 訪問 / 访问 (zh) (fǎngwèn), 往訪 / 往访 (wǎngfǎng), 來訪 / 来访 (zh) (láifǎng) Czech: návštěva (cs) f Danish: besøg (da) n, visit (da) n Dutch: bezoek (nl) n Estonian: külastus, visiit Finnish: käynti (fi), vierailu (fi) French: visite (fr) f, séjour (fr) m Galician: viaxe (gl) f Georgian: წვევა (c̣veva), ვიზიტი (viziṭi) German: Besuch (de) m Greek: επίσκεψη (el) f (epískepsi) Hungarian: látogatás (hu) Icelandic: heimsókn (is) f, vitjun f Indonesian: kunjungan (id) Italian: visita (it) f Japanese: 訪問 (ja) (ほうもん, hōmon), 往訪 (ja) (おうほう, ōhō) Kazakh: бару (kk) (baru), визит (vizit) Korean: 방문(訪問) (ko) (bangmun), 왕방(往訪) (wangbang), 내방(來訪) (naebang), 래방(來訪) (raebang) (North Korea) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: ziyaret (ku), seredan (ku) Kyrgyz: зыярат (ky) (zıyarat), визит (ky) (vizit) Latvian: apmeklējums m, vizīte f, apciemojums m Lithuanian: aplankymas m, vizitas m Macedonian: по́сета f (póseta), визита f (vizita) Malayalam: സന്ദർശനം (ml) (sandaṟśanaṁ) Mirandese: bejita, besita Mongolian: Cyrillic: айлчлал (mn) (ajlčlal) Norwegian: Bokmål: besøk (no) n, visitt m, (nautical) anløp n Nynorsk: besøk n, visitt m, (nautical) anløp n Occitan: visita (oc) f Old English: sōcn f Pashto: زيارت (ps) m (zyārat), ديدن m (didan), ليده f (lidǝ) Persian: Iranian Persian: دیدار (fa) (didâr), زِیارَت (ziyârat) Piedmontese: vìsita f Polish: wizyta (pl) f, odwiedziny (pl) f pl Portuguese: visita (pt) f Romanian: vizită (ro) f Russian: визи́т (ru) m (vizít), посеще́ние (ru) n (poseščénije) Sami: Northern Sami: fitnan, galledeapmi Scottish Gaelic: tadhal m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: по̏сет m, по̏сјет m Latin: pȍset m, pȍsjet (sh) m Slovak: návšteva f Slovene: obisk (sl) m Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: woglěd m Spanish: visita (es) f, visitación (es) f Swedish: besök (sv) n, visit (sv) c Tajik: зиёрат (ziyorat), боздид (bozdid), дидор (didor) Turkish: ziyaret (tr) Ottoman Turkish: زیارت (ziyâret) Turkmen: görme-görüş, wizit, zyýarat (tk) Ukrainian: візи́т m (vizýt), візи́та f (vizýta), відві́дування n (vidvíduvannja) Urdu: آمَد (ur) m (āmad), زِیارَت f (ziyārat) Uyghur: زىيارەت (ziyaret) Uzbek: tashrif (uz), kelib koʻrish, ziyorat (uz) Vietnamese: đi thăm Yiddish: באַזוך m (bazukh), וויזיט m (vizit)

meeting with a doctor

Armenian: այց (hy) (aycʻ) Bulgarian: посеще́ние (bg) n (posešténie) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: návštěva (cs) f Finnish: käynti (fi) French: consultation (fr) f Georgian: ვიზიტი (ექიმთან) (viziṭi (ekimtan)) Greek: επίσκεψη (el) f (epískepsi) Italian: visita (it), consultazione (it) Macedonian: по́сета f (póseta) Persian: Iranian Persian: ویزیت (fa) (vizit) Portuguese: consulta (pt) f Russian: визи́т (ru) m (vizít), посеще́ние (ru) n (poseščénije) Scottish Gaelic: tadhal m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: по̏сет m, по̏сјет m Latin: pȍset m, pȍsjet (sh) m Slovak: návšteva f Spanish: consulta (es) Turkish: ziyaret (tr) Ottoman Turkish: عیادت (ʼıyadet) Ukrainian: візи́т m (vizýt), візи́та f (vizýta)

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Azerbaijani: (please verify) görüş (az) Dutch: (please verify) bezoek (nl) n, (please verify) visite (nl) f Hausa: (please verify) ziyara (ha) f Hebrew: (please verify) סיור (si'ûr) Indonesian: (please verify) kunjungan Kurdish: Central Kurdish: (please verify) میوانداری (mîwandarî), (please verify) سەردان (serdan) Slovene: (please verify) obisk (sl) m Vietnamese: (please verify) đi thăm

Related terms

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• unvisited
• visitation
• visitor

References

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1. ^ “visit, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
2. ^ “visit, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Latin

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Verb

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vīsit

1. third-person singular present/perfect active indicative of vīsō