visitor
Meaning
- Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.
- Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.
- Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.
- A person authorized to visit an institution to see that it is being managed properly.
- An extraterrestrial being on Earth.
- An object which lands or passes by Earth or its orbit.
- A head or overseer of an institution such as a college (in which case, equivalent to the university's chancellor) or cathedral or hospital, who resolves disputes, gives ceremonial speeches, etc.
- The object in the visitor pattern that performs an operation on the elements of a structure one by one.
Synonyms
customer
new person
state guest
visitor’s arrival
privileged guest
official foreign visitor
Frequency
Hyphenated as
vis‧it‧or
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈvɪzɪtə/
Etymology
Partly from Middle English visiter, visitere, equivalent to visit + -er; and partly from Middle English visitour, from Anglo-Norman visitour, from Old French visetëor.
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