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 →

2) A visitor to a website is a person who looks at it. tree →

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 →
• All visitors must report to the school office. tree →
• The zoo had 3,000 visitors on Saturday. tree →
• Swallows are summer visitors to Britain. tree →
• A visitor knocked at the door. tree →
• The museum gives every visitor a map. tree →
• Our class website had 50 visitors this week. tree →
• Then at last the visitor spoke, in a lovely bell-like voice. tree →

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.
• Bright camera flashes over years can fade delicate colours and annoy visitors; many museums allow photos without flash.
• A long, hard stare can be a challenge in gorilla language, so keepers ask visitors not to stare at the gorillas.
• Tapping on glass, shouting and flash photos frighten animals, which cannot leave as easily as visitors can.
• Lorikeets have brush-tipped tongues for licking nectar and pollen from flowers, and they are noisy visitors to gardens in eastern Australia.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «visitor» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.