visiting

vis·it  (vzt)

v. vis·it·ed, vis·it·ing, vis·its

v.tr.

1.

a. To call on socially: visit friends.

b. To go to see or spend time at (a place) with a certain intent: visit a museum; visited London.

c. To stay with as a guest.

d. To go to see in an official or professional capacity: visited the dentist; a priest visiting his parishioners.

2. To go or come to: visits the bank on Fridays.

3. To go to see in order to aid or console: visit the sick and dying.

4. To make itself known to or seize fleetingly: was visited by a bizarre thought.

5.

a. To afflict or assail: A plague visited the village.

b. To inflict punishment on or for; avenge: The sins of the ancestors were visited on their descendants.

v.intr.

1. To make a visit.

2. Informal To converse or chat: Stay and visit with me for a while.

n.

1. The act or an instance of visiting a person, place, or thing.

2. A stay or sojourn as a guest.

3. The act of visiting in a professional capacity.

4. The act of visiting in an official capacity, such as an inspection or examination.

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[Middle English visiten, from Old French visiter, from Latin vsitre, frequentative of vsere, to want to see, go to see, from vidre, to see; see weid- in Indo-European roots.]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

visiting - the activity of making visits; "the purpose was to promote homes, clubs, visiting, and other services" visit - the act of going to see some person or place or thing for a short time; "he dropped by for a visit"

Translations

visiting [ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ]

A. ADJ [speaker, professor] → invitado; [team] → visitante, de fuera
we're on visiting terms → nos visitamos

B. CPD visiting card N → tarjeta f de visita
visiting hours NPL → horas fpl de visita
visiting nurse N (US) → enfermera f que visita a domicilio
visiting rights NPL → derecho msing de visita
visiting time N → horas fpl de visita

visiting [ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ] adj [speaker] → invité(e); [team] → des visiteurs
visiting card n → carte f de visite
visiting hours npl → heures fpl de visite
visiting nurse n (US) → infirmière f à domicile
visiting professor n → professeur associé
visiting time n → heures fpl de visite

visiting

n → Besuche pl

adj scholar, expert → Gast-; dignitary, monarch, royalty, queen → der/die zu Besuch ist

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visiting:

visiting card

n → Visitenkarte f

visiting hours

pl → Besuchszeiten pl

visiting nurse

n (US) → ˜ Bezirkskrankenschwester f

visiting professor

n → Gastprofessor(in) m(f)

visiting rights

pl → Besuchsrecht nt

visiting team

n the visiting → die Gäste pl

visiting terms

pl I’m not on visiting with him → ich kenne ihn nicht so gut, dass ich ihn besuchen gehen würde

visiting time

n → Besuchszeit f

visiting [ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ] adj (speaker, professor, team) → ospite

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visiting [ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ] adj (speaker, professor, team) → ospite