visitor

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Synonyms: visiter

Antonyms: visiter

Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.

Noun

1. Someone who [[visit]]s someone else; someone staying as a guest.
2. Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.
3. {{lb|en|sports|usually|in the plural}} Someone, or a team, that is playing [[away]] from home.
4. {{lb|en|law}} A person authorized to visit an [[institution]] to see that it is being [[manage]]d properly.
5. {{lb|en|ufology|specifically}} An [[extraterrestrial#Adjective|extraterrestrial]] [[being#Noun|being]] on [[Earth#Proper noun|Earth]].
6. An object which lands or passes by Earth or its orbit.
7. {{lb|en|British}} A head or [[overseer]] of an institution such as a [[college]] (in which case, equivalent to the [[university]]'s [[chancellor]]) or [[cathedral]] or [[hospital]], who resolves disputes, gives ceremonial speeches, etc.
8. {{lb|en|software engineering}} The [[object]] in the [[visitor pattern]] that performs an [[operation]] on the [[element]]s of a [[structure]] one by one.

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