Meaning of visitor in English

visitor

noun [ C ]

/ˈvɪz.ɪ.tər/ us

/ˈvɪz.ɪ.t̬ɚ/

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someone who visits a person or place:

You have some visitors to see you.

someone who goes to a website on the internet

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There has been a steady decrease in the number of visitors to the museum.
For a few weeks in the summer, visitors are able to go round Buckingham Palace.
My mother's having visitors to stay next week.
Most foreign visitors to Britain enter the country legitimately.
New security measures require all visitors to sign in at reception and wear a visitor's badge.

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(Definition of visitor from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of visitor

visitor

Many graduate students and overseas visitors have worked on aspects of the ecology of this field.

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Here visitors can gather and wait for friends.

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He draws our attention to the long lines of visitors queuing up to encounter art works at popular international exhibitions.

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I have remarked it in all sorts of visitors, from every culture and nationality.

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The ceremonial was another important element for the design team, so that a welcoming environment could be provided for visitors.

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Such authenticity does not reside in objects but in the visitor's experienced relationship to a set of objects.

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The point of contention is the imagined relationship between visitors and the museums.

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How are an increasingly large number of visitors to be served, if they are at the same time more and more diverse?

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Most museums undergo at the same time a reassessment of the role of curators: museum educators have become the professional mediators between visitors and curators.

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Museums are now at the centre of a triangle of curators' and visitors' concerns, and their historical circumstances.

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Obviously, the formalised behaviour demanded of visitors is no different from that expected in museums all over the world.

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Home visitors have a challenging role, requiring personal warmth, problem-solving and organizational skills, and crisis management abilities, and must work alone and with challenging recipients.

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The income coefficient is positive and significant, reflecting the importance of income in influencing visitors' decisions.

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Here visitors can see the festival's ancient practices.

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The shrine, he laments, has been hollowed out, transformed into ' ' the movie set visitors [expect] to see ' ' (191).

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annual visitor

Over the past nine years the annual visitor figure has risen from 80,000 to 217,000.

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casual visitor

They may give a casual visitor an impression of the scope of the factory operation, but the details needed by an archaeological survey have gone.

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distinguished visitor

I am told that we have a distinguished visitor in the official gallery.

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訪問者, 參觀者, 遊客…

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