| 单词 | visitation |
| 释义 | visitation (once / 1537 pages) n Use the noun visitation to describe a formal or official visit, like the city health inspector's yearly visitation to your favorite pizza place. A visitation often includes some kind of evaluation or inspection, or has some other formal aspect. Meeting with a prisoner might be described as a visitation, and the official scheduled time that divorced parents have with their children are also a kind of visitation. Another meaning of the word is "calamity," or "disaster," especially one of Biblical, plague-like proportions: "The town faced a visitation of unbearably hot temperatures for three weeks." WORD FAMILYvisitation: visitations+/revisit: revisited, revisiting, revisits/visit: revisit, visitant, visitation, visited, visiting, visitor, visits/visitant: visitants/visiting: visitings/visitor: visitors USAGE EXAMPLESVisitation is expected to top 4 million for 2016, a record. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) There’s no timetable for when visitations will resume. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) In another tournament game, Georgetown Visitation beat Wise, 54-45, advancing to play St. Frances in a semifinal Thursday at 2:30 p.m. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) 1n an official visit for inspection or supervision the commissioner made visitations to all the precinct stations the recent visitation of the bishop to his diocese Hyper visit the act of going to see some person or place or thing for a short time 2n any disaster or catastrophe a visitation of the plague Hyper calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy an event resulting in great loss and misfortune 3n an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event a visitation of the plague Syn|Hypo|Hyper trial, tribulation fire a severe trial affliction a cause of great suffering and distress |
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