visit
To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
Verb 4 meanings
To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
“She decided to visit her grandparents for Christmas.”
Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).
Noun 2 meanings
A single act of visiting.
“Next time you're in Manchester, give me a visit.”
A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.
Etymology
From Middle English visiten, from Old French visiter, from Latin vīsitō, frequentative of vīsō (“behold, survey”), from videō (“see”). Cognate with Old Saxon wīsōn (“to visit, afflict”), archaic German weisen (“to visit, afflict”). Displaced native Old English sēċan (“to visit”) and sōcn (“a visit”).
VISIT at a glance
VISIT has 5 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (V 4 + I 1 + S 1 + I 1 + T 1) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #942 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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