visit

verb (visits, visiting, visited)

• 1go to see and spend time with (someone) socially:I came to visit my grandmother [no object]: North Americanhe went out to visit with his pals
• stay temporarily with (someone) or at (a place) as a guest or tourist:they would like to visit Oxford [no object]:I don’t live here—I’m only visiting
• [no object] North American informal chat:there was nothing to do but visit with one another

• 2go to see (someone or something) for a specific purpose, such as to give or receive professional advice:inspectors visit all the hotels
• (as adjective visiting) (of an academic) working for a fixed period of time at another institution:a visiting professor
• access and view (a website or web page):high entertainment value is one good reason to visit the site’s ultra-cool home page
• (chiefly in biblical use) (of God) come to (a person or place) in order to bring comfort or salvation: He shall visit earth in mercy

• 3inflict (something harmful or unpleasant) on someone:the mockery visited upon him by his schoolmates
• (of something harmful or unpleasant) afflict (someone):they were visited with epidemics of a strange disease
• archaic punish (a person or wrongful act):offences were visited with the loss of eyes or ears

noun

• an act of going to see a person or place as a guest, tourist, etc.:I’ll pay him a visit soon a visit to the doctor
• a temporary stay with a person or at a place: she was on a visit to the United States
• North American informal a chat: a telephone visit