visitor

/ˈvɪzɪtɚ/
noun

Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.

NWL Collins ENABLE

Noun 4 meanings

  1. Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.

  2. Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.

  3. Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.

  4. A person authorized to visit an institution to see that it is being managed properly.

Definitions: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA) via Kaikki/Wiktextract

Where it comes from

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. By surface analysis, visit + -or.

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VISITOR at a glance

VISITOR has 7 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (V 4 + I 1 + S 1 + I 1 + T 1 + O 1 + R 1) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,970 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.

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