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visitant

/ˈvɪzɪtənt/

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From French visitant, present participle of visiter.

noun visitants

One who visits; a guest; a visitor. 1612-13, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi Act I, Scene III, Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness, / That is not kept in chains and close-pent rooms, / But in fair lightsome lodgings, and is girt / With the wild noise of prattling visitants, / Which makes it lunatic beyond all cure.
A spectre or ghost. Matsumura felt almost sure that his ghostly visitant had been none other than the Soul of the Mirror.
A migratory bird that makes a temporary stop somewhere. Reëstablishment of such facilities would probably soon draw occasional visitants in special need of rest in their desert flights.

adjective more visitant · most visitant

Visiting. 1677, Thomas d’Urfey, Madam Fickle, or, The Witty False One, London: James Magnes & Richard Bentley, Act III, Scene 2, p. 33, Now the plots unravell’d: I begin to have a knowledge of the visitant Kinsman that us’d to molest us.

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noun one who visits

Русский	гость gostʹ, го́стья góstʹja, посети́тель posetítelʹ, посети́тельница posetítelʹnica, прие́зжий prijézžij, прие́зжая prijézžaja

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@misc{visitant_2026,
  title = {visitant},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/visitant},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}