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/vˈɪzətər/ /vˈɪzɪtər/ Listen

noun

Visitor n. (Written also visiter)

One who visits; one who comes or goes to see another, as in civility or friendship. "This great flood of visitors."

A superior, or a person lawfully appointed for the purpose, who makes formal visits of inspection to a corporation or an institution. See Visit, v. t., 2, and Visitation, n., 2. "The king is the visitor of all lay corporations."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Visitor" Quotes from Famous Books

... just past thirty, is supposedly the nephew of Dr. David Livingstone, with whom he lives and whose practice he shares in the town of Haverly; but at the very outset of the novel, we have the fact that—according to a casual visitor in Haverly—Dr. Livingstone's dead brother had no son; was unmarried, anyway. And then it transpires that, whatever may have been the past, Dr. Livingstone has walled it off from the younger man's consciousness. The elder man has built up a powerful secondary personality—secondary ...

— When Winter Comes to Main Street • Grant Martin Overton

... door. A moment later a thud from without, and the quick footsteps crunching on the snow told him that their visitor had departed. ...

— The Doings Of Raffles Haw • Arthur Conan Doyle

... to run as the big Gobbler came puffing toward her. In her fright she stumbled and fell, and he hurried forward to strike her. The Black Spanish Cock began to ruffle his neck feathers and stretch his head forward. He did not mean to have their visitor treated so. He ran between the Gobbler's feet and they tumbled over together. The little girl picked herself up and ...

— Among the Farmyard People • Clara Dillingham Pierson

... sign to him that a visitor was present. "Ah, that doesn't matter! You can speak openly before him. We are en famille; the Herr Lieutenant belongs to the family. Ha! ha! don't get cross, Athalie; every one knows it. You can speak freely, Michael; it is ...

— Timar's Two Worlds • Mr Jkai

... even a sister," retorted our visitor, who had risen and was on his way to the door. "She's never j'ined the church. When somebody named it to her as a duty if she'd repented of her sins she jest laughed and said she wouldn't. Not bein' respectable enough to belong in with church folks she 'lowed she'd ...

— A Circuit Rider's Wife • Corra Harris

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