visit

The word “visit” means to go and see a person or place, usually briefly. In plain terms, to go somewhere to see someone or something, usually for a short time.

“Visit” is pronounced VIH-ziht (/ˈvɪzɪt/ in IPA).

Here is “visit” used in a sentence: “They visited her grandmother every Sunday afternoon.”

Depending on how it is used, “visit” can be a verb and a noun.

The word “visit” comes from Latin. From Old French visiter, from Latin visito, "to go to see," from videre, "to see.".

“Visit” is a very common word in modern English, usually learned at around the A1 level.

“Visit” has 3 distinct senses listed in this dictionary. The most common is: to go and see a person or place, usually briefly.

The two overlap, but 'visit' stresses travelling to someone's location and spending a little time there, as in visiting grandparents. 'See' can mean the same thing casually ('I saw her yesterday') but also covers brief or chance meetings anywhere. Visiting implies a purpose and a destination.

Yes. In everyday digital use, to visit a website means to open and browse it, and the people who do so are called visitors. The sense borrows directly from the physical idea of going somewhere to look around, applied to an online page rather than a real place.

Popping round to a friend's house for an hour is a visit, as is stopping at a museum while on holiday or calling on a relative in hospital. Each involves going to a person or place and staying only briefly, which is the heart of the word.