# visit

Pronunciation: say "VIZ-it" /ˈvɪzɪt/

## Verb

1. To go to a place for pleasure, to run an errand, or for some other purpose.
   - Simple: To go to a place for fun, to do something, or just to see it.
   - _They visit the coast every July to escape the city heat._
   - _She wants to visit three countries during her trip._
3. To go to see someone and spend time with them, socially, for company, or to comfort them when they are ill or in trouble.
   - Simple: To go and spend time with someone, as a friend or to cheer them up when they are sick or sad.
   - _She tries to visit her elderly neighbors at least once a week._
   - _Relatives from out of town visit during the holidays._
5. Of God, to appear to someone in order to comfort, bless, chastise, or punish them.
   - Simple: Used about God coming to someone to comfort, bless, or punish them.
   - _The prophets taught that the Lord visits his people in times of trial._
   - _They believed God would visit the nation with both blessing and judgment._
6. Of a sickness or misfortune, to afflict someone, coming upon them as a source of suffering.
   - Simple: To come upon someone and cause them suffering, as an illness or misfortune does.
   - _Every few winters the flu seems to visit our town, and half my class is out sick for a week._
   - _A wasting illness visited the household that winter._
7. To inflict harm, punishment, or vengeance on someone, typically in the construction 'visit something on/upon someone'.
   - Simple: To make something bad, like harm or punishment, happen to someone.
   - _The court visited severe penalties upon those who broke the law._
   - _They vowed to visit vengeance on everyone responsible._
4. To access a website or one of its pages and look at what it shows.
   - Simple: To open and look at a website or a page on the internet.
   - _Millions of people visit the weather service's site whenever a hurricane approaches._
   - _Anyone who visited the page that afternoon saw an error message instead of the menu._

## Noun

2. An occasion of going to see a person or place, including an appointment for medical care.
   - Simple: A time when you go to see someone or somewhere, including to get medical care.
   - _His visit to the capital was cut short by bad weather._
   - _Our first visit to the new science museum took the whole afternoon._

## Origin

Latin videō ("see") gave vīsō ("behold, survey"), and its frequentative vīsitō became Old French visiter and then Middle English visiten. The noun comes either from French visite or from the verb.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/visit (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).