visitant
noun · adjectiveB1Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Danh từ
nounPlural noun:
visitants
- 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.
A spectre or ghost.
- 3.
A migratory bird that makes a temporary stop somewhere.
Tính từ
adjectiveComparative
more visitant
Superlative
most visitant
- 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.
Nguồn gốc từ
From French visitant, present participle of visiter.