visitor
Pluralvisitors
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- 3The player or team playing away from their own home ground.
The visitors scored twice in the first half.
The visitor team warmed up on the far side of the field.
Oppositehost
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- 4A being from another planet that has come to Earth.
Like a guest from far away: but the far-away place is another planet.
Some people believe a visitor from space once landed in the desert.
The film imagines visitors who arrive in glowing ships.
Similaralien, extraterrestrial
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- 5A natural object from space that flies past Earth or comes down to it.
Like a stranger who passes through town and then moves on.
The icy visitor will pass close to Earth next month.
Astronomers tracked the visitors as they crossed the inner solar system.
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- 6A person who has the right to check that a place is being run properly.
Like an inspector who comes to make sure everything is being done the right way.
The visitor checked that the hospital was following the rules.
Official visitors report any problems they find at the prison.
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- 7In Britain, the official head of a college or church who settles arguments and gives speeches.
Like a referee for a school or church who steps in to settle big arguments.
The college's visitor settled the dispute between the staff and the board.
Each year the visitor gives a formal speech to the graduates.
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- 8In computer programming, an object that does a job on each item in a group, one at a time.
Like a checker who walks down a line of boxes and does the same task to each one.
The visitor goes through each part of the tree and counts it.
Programmers write a new visitor when they need a different operation.
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Origin
This word comes partly from Middle English 'visiter' (from 'visit' plus '-er'), and partly from Middle English 'visitour', which came through Anglo-Norman 'visitour' from Old French 'visetëor'.