Definition of Visit

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Definition of Visit

Visit

To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.

To go or come to see for inspection, examination, correction of abuses, etc.; to examine, to inspect; as, a bishop visits his diocese; a superintendent visits persons or works under his charge.

To come to for the purpose of chastising, rewarding, comforting; to come upon with reward or retribution; to appear before or judge; as, to visit in mercy; to visit one in wrath.

To make a visit or visits; to maintain visiting relations; to practice calling on others.

The act of visiting, or going to see a person or thing; a brief stay of business, friendship, ceremony, curiosity, or the like, usually longer than a call; as, a visit of civility or respect; a visit to Saratoga; the visit of a physician.

The act of going to view or inspect; an official or formal inspection; examination; visitation; as, the visit of a trustee or inspector.

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Visit Quotations

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
Bill Gates

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine Hepburn

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
George Orwell

He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.
Emo Philips

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
H. L. Mencken

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.
Ralph Nader

If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.
Thomas Friedman

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George Eliot

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
Thomas Hardy

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit.
Philip Pullman

Visit Translations

visit in Afrikaans is kuier, besoek
visit in Dutch is bezoeken, afgaan, opzoeken
visit in French is visitons, visiter, visitez, visite, visitent
visit in German is Besuch, besichtigen, besuchen, besuchen
visit in Latin is adeo, inviso, frequento, saluto
visit in Portuguese is visita
visit in Spanish is rese ar, visita, visitar

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