visit
1. the act of going to see some person or place or thing for a short time (Freq. 11)
- he dropped by for a visit
• Hypernyms:
meeting, coming together
• Hyponyms:
visitation, site visit, call, visiting
2. a meeting arranged by the visitor to see someone (such as a doctor or lawyer) for treatment or advice (Freq. 7)
- he scheduled a visit to the dentist
• Hypernyms:
meeting, get together
3. the act of visiting in an official capacity (as for an inspection) (Freq. 4)
• Hypernyms:
meeting, coming together
• Hyponyms:
flying visit
4. the act of going to see some person in a professional capacity
- a visit to the dentist
• Hypernyms:
meeting, coming together
• Hyponyms:
call
5. a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest)
• Syn:
sojourn
• Derivationally related forms:
sojourn (for: sojourn)
• Hypernyms:
stay
1. go to see a place, as for entertainment (Freq. 29)
- We went to see the Eiffel Tower in the morning
• Syn:
see
• Derivationally related forms:
visitor, visitant
• Hypernyms:
tour
• Hyponyms:
take in
• Verb Group:
see
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. go to certain places as for sightseeing (Freq. 24)
- Did you ever visit Paris?
• Syn:
travel to
• Derivationally related forms:
visitor, visiting
• Hypernyms:
travel, trip, jaunt
• Hyponyms:
sightsee, frequent, haunt
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. pay a brief visit (Freq. 15)
- The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens
• Syn:
call in, call
• Derivationally related forms:
caller (for: call), call (for: call), visitor, visitant
• Hypernyms:
meet, get together
• Hyponyms:
see, drop by, drop in, come by
• Verb Group:
call
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s
- Sam cannot visit Sue
4. come to see in an official or professional capacity (Freq. 6)
- The governor visited the prison
- The grant administrator visited the laboratory
• Syn:
inspect
• Derivationally related forms:
inspection (for: inspect), visitation, visitor
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
5. impose something unpleasant (Freq. 3)
- The principal visited his rage on the students
• Syn:
inflict, bring down, impose
• Derivationally related forms:
imposition (for: impose), visitation, infliction (for: inflict)
• Hypernyms:
communicate, intercommunicate
• Hyponyms:
order, prescribe, dictate, intrude, obtrude,
clamp, give, foist
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something on somebody
6. talk socially without exchanging too much information (Freq. 1)
- the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze
• Syn:
chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab,
chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip,
jaw, claver
• Derivationally related forms:
visitor, gossip (for: gossip), chatter (for: chatter), chatterer (for: chatter), chitchat (for: chitchat), confabulation (for: confabulate), chat (for: chat), chit chat (for: chitchat), chit-chat (for: chitchat)
• Hypernyms:
converse, discourse
• Hyponyms:
shmooze, shmoose, schmooze, schmoose, jawbone
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Sam and Sue visit
- Sam cannot visit Sue
7. stay with as a guest
- Every summer, we visited our relatives in the country for a month
• Derivationally related forms:
visitor
• Hypernyms:
bide, abide, stay
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
8. assail
- He was visited with a terrible illness that killed him quickly
• Derivationally related forms:
visitation
• Hypernyms:
afflict, smite
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
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