VISITOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does visitor mean? 

• VISITOR (noun)
  The noun VISITOR has 1 sense:

1. someone who visits

  Familiarity information: VISITOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VISITOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who visits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

visitant; visitor

Hypernyms ("visitor" is a kind of...):

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "visitor"):

boulevardier (a visitor of a city boulevard (especially in Paris))

caller; company (a social or business visitor)

guest; invitee (a visitor to whom hospitality is extended)

visiting fireman (an important or distinguished visitor)

Derivation:

visit (talk socially without exchanging too much information)

visit (go to certain places as for sightseeing)

visit (come to see in an official or professional capacity)

visit (pay a brief visit)

visit (go to see a place, as for entertainment)

visit (stay with as a guest)

 Context examples 

Emma allowed her father to talk—but supplied her visitors in a much more satisfactory style, and on the present evening had particular pleasure in sending them away happy.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The visitor of the night before was not a gentleman, neither was he a workingman.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They all waited in silence for the appearance of their visitor.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Our visitor sprang from his chair.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The little visitor meanwhile was as unhappy as possible.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and often twice.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here the bell rang, and we heard the sound of the visitors' feet as they went out.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"She wishes to know who will be her first visitor."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The team explored several scenarios to explain the faster-than-predicted speed of this peculiar interstellar visitor.

(ESO’s VLT Sees `Oumuamua Getting a Boost, ESO)

Their visitors were not to remain above ten days with them.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)