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say it: VIZ-it
visit is a verb and noun meaning "go to see a place, as for entertainment". It carries 13 recorded senses.
come to see in an official or professional capacity
“The governor visited the prison”
“The grant administrator visited the laboratory”
impose something unpleasant
“The principal visited his rage on the students”
talk socially without exchanging too much information
“the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze”
the act of going to see some person or place or thing for a short time
“he dropped by for a visit”
a meeting arranged by the visitor to see someone (such as a doctor or lawyer) for treatment or advice
“he scheduled a visit to the dentist”
the act of visiting in an official capacity (as for an inspection)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for visit come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.