visit

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A single act of visiting.
    — Next time you're in Manchester, give me a visit.
  2. A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.
动词 v.
  1. To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) transitive
  2. To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability. intransitive,transitive
    — She decided to visit her grandparents for Christmas.
  3. Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) transitive
    — [God] hath visited and redeemed his people.
  4. To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something). archaic,transitive
    — Her life was spared by the clemency of the emperor, but he visited the pomp and treasures of her palace.
  5. Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone). transitive
    — There used to be a sharp contest as to where the effigy was to be made, for the people thought that the house from which it was carried forth would not be visited with death that year.
  6. To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone. transitive
    — 05-032 was right about one thing: there is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to visit utter annihilation on it.
  7. To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) transitive
  8. To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc. transitive
    — Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.

词形变化

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词汇关系

衍生词
visit a spell closed visit conjugal visit educational visit flying visit home visit open visit pay a visit state visit visitation visitor working visit
相关词
unvisited visitation visitor

词源

词源 1
From Middle English visiten, from Old French visiter, from Latin vīsitō, frequentative of vīsō (“behold, survey”), from videō (“see”). Cognate with Old Saxon wīsōn (“to visit, afflict”), archaic German weisen (“to visit, afflict”). Displaced native Old English sēċan (“to visit”) and sōcn (“a visit”).
The noun is from French visite or the verb. Doublet of visite.
词源 2
From Middle English visiten, from Old French visiter, from Latin vīsitō, frequentative of vīsō (“behold, survey”), from videō (“see”). Cognate with Old Saxon wīsōn (“to visit, afflict”), archaic German weisen (“to visit, afflict”). Displaced native Old English sēċan (“to visit”) and sōcn (“a visit”).
The noun is from French visite or the verb. Doublet of visite.
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