Meaning

7 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.

    Besuch

  2. (countable, uncountable)An official visit to inspect or examine something.

    Visite

    an official visit for inspection or supervision

  3. (countable, uncountable)An encounter with aliens or supernatural beings such as ghosts.

    Begegnung, Erscheinung

  4. (countable, uncountable)An affliction or disaster attributed to destiny, or to God.

    any disaster or catastrophe

  5. (countable, uncountable)The right of a separated or divorced parent to visit a child; access.

    Umgangsrecht

  6. (countable, uncountable)A punishment or blessing ordained by God.

  7. (countable, uncountable)An unusual and extensive irruption of a species of animals into another region.

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Sami arrived for his visitation day.

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  2. Sami was granted one hour of visitation with the children.

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  3. Unwed couples deserve visitation rights just as much as married ones do.

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  4. Tom got visitation rights.

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Translations

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By meaning 4
act of visiting:
official visit:
encounter with supernatural beings:
right to see one's child:

Origin

From Anglo-Norman visitacioun, from Old French visitacion, from Latin vīsitātiō. By surfac

From Anglo-Norman visitacioun, from Old French visitacion, from Latin vīsitātiō. By surface analysis, visit + -ation.

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Forms

plural: visitations
Singularvisitation
Pluralvisitations

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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