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visit
English
Etymology
From Middle English visiten, from Old French visiter, from Latin v?sit?, frequentative of v?s? (“behold, survey”), from vide? (“see”). Cognate with Old Saxon w?s?n (“to visit, afflict”), archaic German weisen (“to visit, afflict”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?v?z?t/
- Rhymes: -?z?t
- Hyphenation: vis?it
Verb
visit (third-person singular simple present visits, present participle visiting, simple past and past participle visited)
- (transitive) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) [from 13th c.]
- (transitive, intransitive) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability. [from 14th c.]
- (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.]
- [God] hath visited and redeemed his people.
- 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.
- (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.
- 1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 68:
- (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.
- 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough:
- (transitive) To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone. [from 14th c.]
- 2011, John Mullan, The Guardian, 2 Dec 2011:
- If this were an Ibsen play, we would be thinking of the sins of one generation being visited upon another, he said.
- 2011, John Mullan, The Guardian, 2 Dec 2011:
- (transitive) To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) [from 14th c.]
- (transitive) To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc. [from 15th c.]
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
- Each year, millions of people visit the 4,570-meter-high Baishui Glacier in southern China.
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (go and meet):: call on
Translations
Noun
visit (plural visits)
- A single act of visiting.
- (medicine, insurance) A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.
Derived terms
Translations
Related terms
- unvisited
- visitation
- visitor
Latin
Verb
v?sit
- third-person singular present active indicative of v?s?
- third-person singular perfect active indicative of v?s?
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sessions
English
Noun
sessions
- plural of session
Catalan
Noun
sessions
- plural of sessió
French
Noun
sessions f
- plural of session
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