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Visiting   /vˈɪzətɪŋ/  /vˈɪzɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Visiting

noun
1.
The activity of making visits.


Visit

verb
(past & past part. visited; pres. part. visiting)
1.
Go to see a place, as for entertainment.  Synonym: see.
2.
Go to certain places as for sightseeing.  Synonym: travel to.
3.
Pay a brief visit.  Synonyms: call, call in.
4.
Come to see in an official or professional capacity.  Synonym: inspect.  "The grant administrator visited the laboratory"
5.
Impose something unpleasant.  Synonyms: bring down, impose, inflict.
6.
Talk socially without exchanging too much information.  Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze.
7.
Stay with as a guest.
8.
Assail.



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"Visiting" Quotes from Famous Books



... that they barely spoke of Elise at all. She was visiting a county family in the north, and would be home in a couple of days. As there was no immediate suitor on the horizon, what more was there to be said of the daughter ...
— The Parts Men Play • Arthur Beverley Baxter
... style of all his writings, particularly of his latest work on the Generation of Animals, affords a sufficient proof of his diligence in the prosecution of these preliminary studies during the next four years which he spent at Cambridge. The two next were occupied in visiting the principal cities and seminaries of the Continent. He then prepared to address himself to those investigations to which the rest of his life was devoted; and the scene of his introduction to them could not have been better chosen ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 • Various
... man. Soon after that knock on the door, and when the guard looks in show him the wounded man, who will then feign to be very bad. I sleep in a rear apartment of the palace. The guard will send for me, and I will come. Otherwise my visiting you at that time of night would be looked upon with suspicion. The rest I will tell you then. Don't despair. All will be well; till ...
— The River of Darkness - Under Africa • William Murray Graydon
... grant a substantial increase in wages and involve concessions to the strikers which are considered by their Executive Committee as tantamount to an admission of the miners' claims on nearly all the outstanding points. Tonight the delegates were visiting their districts, canvassing the sentiment ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 • Various
... carelessness and mismanagement. The Board has been diligently employed in drawing up suggestions and instructions to local boards and parochial authorities, and great activity has prevailed here in establishing committees for the purpose of visiting the different districts of the metropolis, and making such arrangements as may be necessary in the event of sickness breaking out. There is no lack of money or labour for this end, and one great ...
— The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II • Charles C. F. Greville


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