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visitant

/viz-i-tuhnt/US // ˈvɪz ɪ tənt //UK // (ˈvɪzɪtənt) //

访问者,探访者,探视者,参观者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a temporary resident; visitor; guest.
    • : a visitor to a place of religious or sight-seeing interest; pilgrim.
    • : a being believed to come from the spirit world: a ghostly visitant.
    • : something, as a mood, feeling, emotion, etc., that overtakes a person from time to time: Melancholy is an occasional visitant to all.
    • : a migratory bird that has come to a place temporarily.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : visiting; paying a visit.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounghost

Examples

  • Though generally a winter visitant, I have seen occasional stragglers in summer.

  • He lodged 30 years in one gloomy apartment, which was never lighted up with coal, candle, or the countenance of a visitant.

  • The Common Tern is a regular but not numerous spring and autumn visitant to the Islands, some remaining to breed.

  • To the boys imagination, the new-comer seemed a visitant from a fairy world.

  • He instantly detected the diabolical quality of his visitant, and was prepared.