Definitions for visitor
ˈvɪz ɪ tərvis·i·tor

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. visitor, visitant(noun)

   someone who visits

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. visitor(Noun)

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

2. visitor(Noun)

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

3. visitor(Noun)

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

4. Visitor(Noun)

   An overseer of some institutions such as cathedrals, colleges and hospitals etc.

Webster Dictionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Visitor

   one who visits; one who comes or goes to see another, as in civility or friendship

   Etymology: [Cf. F. visiteur.]

2. Visitor

   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

   Etymology: [Cf. F. visiteur.]

Freebase(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Visitor

   A Visitor, in United Kingdom law and history, is an overseer of an autonomous ecclesiastical or eleemosynary institution who can intervene in the internal affairs of that institution. These institutions mainly comprise cathedrals, chapels, colleges, universities and hospitals. The British sovereign, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Chief Justice, peers, and diocesan bishops are the most common Visitors, though any person or office-holder can be nominated. The Queen usually delegates her visitatorial functions to the Lord Chancellor. During the reform of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in the 19th century, Parliament ordered Visitations to the universities to make inquiries and to reform the university and college statutes. Bishops are usually the Visitors to their own cathedrals. There is a ceremonial element to the role and the Visitor may also be called upon to give advice where an institution expresses doubt as to its powers under its charter and statutes. However, the most important function of the Visitor was within academic institutions, where the Visitor had to determine disputes arising between the institution and its members. Traditionally the courts have been exempted from any jurisdiction over student complaints. There had been much speculation that this contravened the Human Rights Act 1998. However in 2004 the Higher Education Act transferred the jurisdiction of the Visitor over student complaints in English and Welsh universities to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator.

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. visitor

   A person or people who go to see a person or people.

   The visitor was my future husbands sister and we had a wonderful time.

   Submitted by MaryC on March 18, 2020  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'visitor' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4128

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'visitor' in Nouns Frequency: #668

How to pronounce visitor?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of visitor in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of visitor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of visitor in a Sentence

1. Emyr Williams:

   We have experienced the busiest visitor day in living memory. The area has been overwhelmed with visitors.

2. Mary McCarthy:

   In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?

3. Eric Halvorson:

   The store did have a surprise visitor last night, entering through the front door, as far as I know, this is a first for our division.

4. Daniel Simmonds:

   Of course the animals have been missing the visitors, the gorillas have really been looking out for people, i am absolutely sure they are going to be really excited when they see lots of friendly visitor faces visiting them tomorrow.

5. Jono Miller:

   The department continually looks for opportunities to expand visitor services and recreation as well as make our parks and lands more self-sustaining.

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