VISITOR

visitor, visitant

(noun) someone who visits

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

visitor (plural visitors)

Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.

Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.

(sports, usually, in the plural) Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.

A person authorized to visit an institution to see that it is being managed properly.

(ufology) An extraterrestrial being on Earth for any reason.

An object which lands or passes by Earth or its orbit.

(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.

(software engineering) The object in the visitor pattern that performs an operation on the elements of a structure one by one.

Anagrams

• ivorist

Source: Wiktionary

Vis"it*or. Etym: [Cf. F. visiteur.] [Written also visiter.]

1. One who visits; one who comes or goes to see another, as in civility or friendship. "This great flood of visitors." Shak.

2. A superior, or a person lawfully appointed for the purpose, who makes formal visits of inspection to a corporation or an institution. See Visit, v. t., 2, and Visitation, n., 2. The king is the visitor of all lay corporations. Blackstone.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition