Definition of visit

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vis·it    (vzt) KEY 

VERB:
vis·it·ed, vis·it·ing, vis·its
VERB:
tr.

1. 1. To call on socially: visit friends.
   2. To go to see or spend time at (a place) with a certain intent: visit a museum; visited London.
   3. To stay with as a guest.
   4. To go to see in an official or professional capacity: visited the dentist; a priest visiting his parishioners.
2. To go or come to: visits the bank on Fridays.
3. To go to see in order to aid or console: visit the sick and dying.
4. To make itself known to or seize fleetingly: was visited by a bizarre thought.
5. 1. To afflict or assail: A plague visited the village.
   2. To inflict punishment on or for; avenge: The sins of the ancestors were visited on their descendants.

VERB:
intr.

1. To make a visit.
2. Informal To converse or chat: Stay and visit with me for a while.

NOUN:

1. The act or an instance of visiting a person, place, or thing.
2. A stay or sojourn as a guest.
3. The act of visiting in a professional capacity.
4. The act of visiting in an official capacity, such as an inspection or examination.

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ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English visiten, from Old French visiter, from Latin vsitre, frequentative of vsere, to want to see, go to see, from vidre, to see; see weid- in Indo-European roots