English Dictionary

visitor

/ˈvɪzɪtə/

noun

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.

The visitor arrived at the hotel and checked in.

意味（1）

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

There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.

意味（2）

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

Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted.

意味（3）

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

But, somewhat against the run of play, Craddock fired the visitors ahead, volleying a low effort beyond Simon Mignolet after Sunderland twice failed to clear attempted crosses from Stephen Hunt.

意味（4）

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

意味（5）

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

5: Of course there is always the remote (I hope) possibility that instant panic will prompt us to send a hailstorm of nuclear warheads out upon the visitor.

意味（6）

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

Within a few months, another small meteoric mass has been added to the list of those extra-terrestrial bodies which have fallen within the limits of Tennessee. This recent visitor is a stone, weighing, when first obtained, three pounds.

意味（7）

(Britain) 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.

意味（8）

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