visit

noun

A single act of visiting.

(medicine, insurance) A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.

verb

(transitive, intransitive) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.

(transitive) To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.

(transitive) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)

(transitive) Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)

(transitive) Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).

(transitive) To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone.

(transitive) To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)

(transitive, now rare) To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something).

Roots

viderevid- · Latin · to see

Synonyms for visit

sojournn seev callv visitationn attendv chatn stopovern

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Where does visit come from?

The word visit breaks down into one root of Latin origin: the root vid-, from Latin videre (“to see”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.