visit
Forms
- present (v1)
- visit
- past (v2)
- visited
- past participle (v3)
- visited
- present participle
- visiting
- 3rd person singular
- visits
- Plural
- visits
Definitions
1.To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
- Nobody ever comes to visit me.
- I'm going to Berlin to visit my friend.
- Her dream is to visit Paris.
2.To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
- She decided to visit her grandparents for Christmas.
3.Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
- 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.Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).
- 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.
1.A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.
2.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.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #957
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
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”).