visa
(noun) an endorsement made in a passport that allows the bearer to enter the country issuing it
visa
(verb) approve officially; “The list of speakers must be visaed”
visa
(verb) provide (a passport) with a visa
Source: WordNet® 3.1
visa (plural visas)
A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited.
visa (third-person singular simple present visas, present participle visaing, simple past and past participle visaed)
(transitive, dated) To endorse (a passport, etc.).
• Avis, IVAs, Siva, Vias, avis, vias
VISA (uncountable)
(medicine, microbiology) Initialism of vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus.
• Avis, IVAs, Siva, Vias, avis, vias
Coined by the company's founder, Dee Hock, who believed that the word was instantly recognizable in many languages and that it denoted universal acceptance.
Visa
(banking) A credit card company.
Alternative spelling of visa
Visa (plural Visas)
(banking) Visa card
(banking) credit card
• Avis, IVAs, Siva, Vias, avis, vias
Source: Wiktionary
Vi"sa, n. Etym: [F.]
Definition: See Vis.
Vi"sa, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Visaed; p. pr. & vb. n. Visaing.]
Definition: To indorse, after examination, with the word visé, as a passport; to visé.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
