visitor

visitor: visitor, visitant, guest, caller mean one who visits another or comes to pay a visit.

Visitor is the general word applicable to anyone who comes under this description

{
there are visitors in the drawing room
}

{
summer visitors
}

but it is especially applicable to one who makes a friendly visit or one who comes in the cause of charity, social service, or investigation

{
a frequent visitor at his friend's house
}

{
the visitor from the Red Cross found no one at home
}

Visitant is applied especially to a visitor who is or seems to be from another sphere (as heaven or hell)

{
supernatural visitant
}

{
at the sound of this the visitant returned .... Markheim . .. thought he bore a likeness to himself: and always, like a lump of living terror, there lay in his bosom the conviction that this thing was not of the earth— Stevenson
}

As compared with visitor, guest emphasizes the idea of hospitable entertainment; it applies therefore chiefly to one who comes as a result of an invitation

{
they had ten guests at dinner
}

{
we shall have no guests until the children are perfectly well
}

It also is often used, sometimes in the expanded form paying guest, of a lodger or boarder, and is used regularly for patrons of a restaurant or hotel.

Caller is applicable not only to one who comes for a social or business call (see under VISIT)

but to anyone regardless of his intentions who seeks entrance to one's home or office

{
told her maid that she would not be at home to callers that day
}

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Synonyms:

Guest / Inspector, examiner, censor, critic

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Visitor — Шаблон Visitor(также известный как Посетитель) – Шаблон проектирования Поведенческий шаблон (Behavioral). Описывает операцию, которая выполняется над объектами других классов. При изменении Visitor нет необходимости изменять обслуживаемые классы … Википедия
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visitor — a person seeking entry to the UK as a visitor will be admitted if he satisfies the immigration officer that: (1) he is genuinely seeking entry for the period of the visit stated by him; (2) for that period he will maintain and accommodate himself … Law dictionary
visitor — early 15c., from VISIT (Cf. visit) + OR (Cf. or). Sports sense is from 1900 … Etymology dictionary
visitor — is spelt or, not er … Modern English usage
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visitor — ► NOUN 1) a person visiting a person or place. 2) a migratory bird present in a locality for only part of the year … English terms dictionary

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