visitant

n. 贵宾, 幽魂

发音

/ˈvɪzɪtənt/

词形变化

visitants 复数 visitants more visitant 比较级 most visitant 最高级

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    One who visits; a guest; a visitor.

    1612-13, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi Act I, Scene III, Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness, / That is not kept in chains and close-pent rooms, / But in fair lightsome lodgings, and is girt / With the wild noise of prattling visitants, / Which makes it lunatic beyond all cure.

  2. 2.

    A spectre or ghost.

  3. 3.

    A migratory bird that makes a temporary stop somewhere.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Visiting.

    1677, Thomas d’Urfey, Madam Fickle, or, The Witty False One, London: James Magnes & Richard Bentley, Act III, Scene 2, p. 33, Now the plots unravell’d: I begin to have a knowledge of the visitant Kinsman that us’d to molest us.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

visitor

上位词 2

traveler traveller

下位词 5

company guest caller invitee boulevardier

词源

From French visitant, present participle of visiter.

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