visitor
/ˈvɪzɪtə
/noun
1A person visiting someone or somewhere, especially socially or as a tourist: she’s a frequent visitor to London I’m expecting visitors later this evening...
- Their view will be that of the outsider, the visitor, the tourist.
- This is a wonderful development in the area and was much needed to facilitate the local visitor and the passing tourists.
- She was a frequent visitor to the local garden centres in the city and county and her garden was a testimony to her love of shrubs and flowers.
Synonyms
guest, caller;
company
archaic visitant
tourist, traveller, holidaymaker, day tripper, tripper, sightseer, globetrotter, jet-setter, backpacker, voyager, tourer, explorer, pilgrim;
foreigner, outsider, stranger, alien;
North American vacationer, vacationist, out-of-towner
British informal emmet, grockle
rare excursionist
1.1 (usually visitors) A member of a sports team on tour or playing away from home: the visitors came back into the game with two penalty goals...
- No mean achievement this, as the visitors ' first team are two leagues above Ilkley.
- Robinson added the extra two and a further penalty when the visitors strayed offside.
- A penalty put the visitors back to within one goal as the teams went into overdrive.
1.2British A person with the right or duty of occasionally inspecting and reporting on a college or other academic institution.Upstairs, the visitor sees that a group of 3rd-graders are also having a math lesson....
- First off, Michael Briggs managed to thwart a formal inquiry by appealing to the university visitor.
1.3 Ornithology A migratory bird present in a locality for only part of the year: the red-necked grebe is a regular winter visitor...
- As we were leaving, we stopped to admire the cardinals at the bird feeder by the visitor's center.
- Sharath Babu says the golden oriole is an attractive bird, a winter visitor to Bangalore.
- Ice free, fresh water will help attract birds to your garden and make them regular visitors.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French visitour, from Old French visiter (see visit).