What is the meaning of visiting?

noun

  • The activity of making visits.
    • usage: "the purpose was to promote homes, clubs, visiting, and other services"

verb

  • Go to see a place, as for entertainment.
    • usage: "We went to see the Eiffel Tower in the morning"
  • Go to certain places as for sightseeing.
    • usage: "Did you ever visit Paris"
  • Pay a brief visit.
    • usage: "The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens"
  • Come to see in an official or professional capacity.
    • usage: "The governor visited the prison"; "The grant administrator visited the laboratory"
  • Impose something unpleasant.
    • usage: "The principal visited his rage on the students"
  • Talk socially without exchanging too much information.
    • usage: "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
  • Stay with as a guest.
    • usage: "Every summer, we visited our relatives in the country for a month"
  • Assail.
    • usage: "He was visited with a terrible illness that killed him quickly"
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