say it: viz-i-TAY-shuhn
visitation is a noun meaning "an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event". It carries 3 recorded senses.
an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event
“his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him”
“life is full of tribulations”
“a visitation of the plague”
any disaster or catastrophe
“a visitation of the plague”
an official visit for inspection or supervision
“the commissioner made visitations to all the precinct stations”
“the recent visitation of the bishop to his diocese”
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 visitation 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.