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# visitor

noun (a visitor, visitors)

«visitor» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A visitor is a person who comes to see a person or a place for a while. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visitor/#m2)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visitor/#x1)
- All visitors must report to the school office. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visitor/#x2)
- The zoo had 3,000 visitors on Saturday. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visitor/#x3)
- Swallows are summer visitors to Britain. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visitor/#x4)
- A visitor knocked at the door. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visitor/#x5)
- The museum gives every visitor a map. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visitor/#x6)
- Our class website had 50 visitors this week. [tree →](https://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://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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «visitor» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/visitor/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«visitor» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/visitor.html) on Mova free.