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посети́ть — meaning in English

posetit

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English meaning

  • attend verb To be present at an event, class, or place.
  • call verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
  • do verb To perform or carry out an action or task.
  • see verb To perceive something with the eyes.
  • visit verb To go and see a person or place, usually briefly.

Senses

посети́ть is used for these senses in English:

  • attend (transitive) To be present at (an event or place) in order to take part in some action or proceedings; also, to regularly go to (an event or place). [from 17th c.]
  • call To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
  • do (transitive) To perform; to execute.
  • do (ambitransitive) To suffice.
  • do (ditransitive) To have (as an effect).
  • do (transitive) To cook.
  • do (transitive, slang) To kill.
  • do (transitive) To cheat or swindle.

attend — full definition

  1. verb To be present at an event, class, or place.
  2. verb To take care of or deal with someone or something.
  3. verb To pay attention to or listen carefully to something.

call — full definition

  1. verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
  2. verb To give someone or something a name; to refer to something in a particular way.
  3. verb To pay a brief visit, or to stop at a place, especially a ship stopping at a port.
  4. verb To predict or officially declare an outcome.
  5. noun An act of speaking to someone on the phone.

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