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VISITING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does visiting mean?
• VISITING (noun)
The noun VISITING has 1 sense:
1. the activity of making visits
Familiarity information: VISITING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The activity of making visits
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context example:
the purpose was to promote homes, clubs, visiting, and other services
Hypernyms ("visiting" is a kind of...):
visit (the act of going to see some person or place or thing for a short time)
Derivation:
visit (go to certain places as for sightseeing)
Context examples
Henry Crawford was at Mansfield Park again the next morning, and at an earlier hour than common visiting warrants.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
‘Only to ask a few questions of a Greek gentleman who is visiting us, and to let us have the answers.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When visiting is better for the happiness of all parties, we are glad to receive visits, and return them.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Small heart had Harriet for visiting.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
You ought to make an effort and go visiting everywhere you are asked, then you'll have plenty of friends, and pleasant places to go to.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Westgate Buildings! said he, and who is Miss Anne Elliot to be visiting in Westgate Buildings?
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
You forced me into visiting him last year, and promised, if I went to see him, he should marry one of my daughters.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Jupiter, the giver of gifts and luck, arrived in your tenth house of fame and honors (the same house Saturn and Pluto have been visiting) on December 2, 2019, to stay a year, until December 19, 2020.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
So I sought out a school conducted on a more indulgent system, and near enough to permit of my visiting her often, and bringing her home sometimes.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It was then that the white men rushed in, visiting their wrath heavily on the pack, while White Fang went free.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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