pay a visit

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pay a visit

verb pays a visit · paying a visit · paid a visit

  1. idiomatic To visit. In the succeeding years I paid many more visits to Scotland; this was made easy even for those of modest means, by that wonderful institution, the "Inverness Tourist." For £3 one could get a ticket from London to Inverness and back with a wide choice of routes, […].
  2. euphemistic, idiomatic To go to the toilet.

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verb to visit

中文參觀 /参观 cānguān, 訪問 /访问 fǎngwèn, 拜訪 /拜访 bàifǎng
Françaisrendre visite
Deutscheinen Besuch abstatten
Русскийнанести́ визи́т nanestí vizít

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@misc{pay_a_visit_2026,
  title = {pay a visit},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pay%20a%20visit},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}