visitor

Plural

visitors

1. 1.Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.

   • 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.
   • 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.

2. 2.Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.

   • Belgrade knew how to show visitors a good time, thanks to its fashionable, somewhat raucous nightclub and bar scene.

3. 3.Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.

   • But, somewhat against the run of play, Craddock fired the visitors ahead, volleying a low effort beyond Simon Mignolet after Sunderland twice failed to clear attempted crosses from Stephen Hunt.

4. 4.A person authorized to visit an institution to see that it is being managed properly.

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By learning goal

Everyday conversation

Rare

General reading & writing

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Academic

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Literature

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Word family

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