WordDisk
  • Reading
    • Shortcuts
      •   Home
      •   All Articles
      •   Read from Another Site
      Sources
      • Wikipedia
      • Simple Wikipedia
      • VOA Learning English
      • Futurity
      • The Conversation
      • MIT News
      • Harvard Gazette
      • Cambridge News
      • YDS/YÖKDİL Passages
      Topics
      • Technology
      • Engineering
      • Business
      • Economics
      • Human
      • Health
      • Energy
      • Biology
      • Nature
      • Space
  •  Log in
  •  Sign up
4.41
History
Add

visiting adjective [ ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ ]

• (of a person) on a visit to a person or place.
• "a visiting speaker"

visit verb

• go to see and spend time with (someone) socially.
• "I came to visit my grandmother"
Similar: pay someone a call, pay someone a visit, pay a call on, pay a visit to, go to see, come to see, look in on, stay with, spend time with, be the guest of, stop by, drop by, pay a call, pay a visit, come to stay, call on, call in on, holiday with, visit with, go see, pop in on, drop in on, blow in on, drop round to see, look up,
• inflict (something harmful or unpleasant) on someone.
• "the mockery visited upon him by his schoolmates"
Similar: happen to, overtake, befall, come upon, fall upon, hit, strike,
Origin: Middle English: from Old French visiter or Latin visitare ‘go to see’, frequentative of visare ‘to view’, from videre ‘to see’.


2025 WordDisk