visitor
IPA: vˈɪzʌtɝ
noun
- Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.
- Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.
- (sports, usually in the plural) Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.
- (law) A person authorized to visit an institution to see that it is being managed properly.
- (ufology, specifically) An extraterrestrial being on Earth.
- An object which lands or passes by Earth or its orbit.
- (Britain) A head or overseer of an institution such as a college (in which case, equivalent to the university's chancellor) or cathedral or hospital, who resolves disputes, gives ceremonial speeches, etc.
- (software engineering) The object in the visitor pattern that performs an operation on the elements of a structure one by one.
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Examples of "visitor" in Sentences
- Sending something home with a visitor is a real treat for them.
- This time the visitor is a local lawyer with an interesting story.
- What would the eighteenth century look like to a visitor from the twenty-second?
- How would a visitor from the future look to a courtier in Louis XIV's Versailles?
- The whole place seems to be in a state of perpetual motion, and the occasional visitor is apt to have a feeling of giddiness.
- _ The visitor will not give him o'er so] Why Dr. Warburton should change _visitor_ to _'vizer_ for _adviser_, I cannot discover.
- Sawmill Analytics allows you to choose what you define as a visitor - by default the client IP is used, but you can use a cookie
- Move: Choreographing You, which opened last week, sets out to change that, with a series of installations in which the visitor is an active, and at times hyperactive, participant.
- But if I were going to Tokyo tomorrow, I would, on arrival, hold off on the "maid cafes" in the nerds 'electronic hive of Akihabara, on the Hysteric Glamour fashions around Harajuku, even on the gleaming shops of the Ginza that have long made Tokyo seem an early visitor from the 23rd century.
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