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# visitor

«visitor» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who comes to see a person or a place for a while** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a visitor, visitors)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A visitor is a person who comes to see a person or a place for a while. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visitor/#m1)

2) A visitor to a website is a person who looks at it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visitor/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school and safety, visitors must sign in at the school office and wear a badge, so staff know who is in the building. In everyday life you get visitors at home (grandparents, friends) and you are polite: say hello, offer a drink. Tourists are visitors to a city or country. In maths problems you often count visitors: «A museum had 120 visitors on Monday and 95 on Tuesday.» In science, a bird that comes only in summer is a summer visitor.

### examples

- We have visitors coming for dinner tonight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visitor/#x1)
- All visitors must report to the school office. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visitor/#x2)
- The zoo had 3,000 visitors on Saturday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visitor/#x3)
- Swallows are summer visitors to Britain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visitor/#x4)
- A visitor knocked at the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visitor/#x5)
- The museum gives every visitor a map. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visitor/#x6)
- Our class website had 50 visitors this week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visitor/#x7)
- Then at last the visitor spoke, in a lovely bell-like voice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visitor/#x8)

### note

Countable: a visitor, visitors. Spelt -or, not -er. «Visit» is the action, «visitor» the person. A «guest» is usually invited; a visitor might not be. Children should not let unknown visitors into the house without an adult. In maths, «visitors in all» means add the numbers.

### In the corpora

- [Hospitals limit visiting hours and the number of visitors so patients can rest and doctors and nurses can work.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/11/)
- [Bright camera flashes over years can fade delicate colours and annoy visitors; many museums allow photos without flash.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there/10/)
- [A long, hard stare can be a challenge in gorilla language, so keepers ask visitors not to stare at the gorillas.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/12/)
- [Tapping on glass, shouting and flash photos frighten animals, which cannot leave as easily as visitors can.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say/16/)
- [Lorikeets have brush-tipped tongues for licking nectar and pollen from flowers, and they are noisy visitors to gardens in eastern Australia.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/303-parrots-of-the-world-macaws-cockatoos-african-greys-lorikeets-and-the-cheeky-kea/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «visitor» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visitor/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.