visits

See also: visíts

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: vĭzʹĭts, IPA^(key): /ˈvɪzɪts/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

visits

1. plural of visit
   • 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:

     They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

   • 1949 — Third Geneva Convention, Article IV, sect. 65

     Prisoners of war shall at all times be afforded reasonable facilities for consulting and obtaining copies of their accounts, which may likewise be inspected by the representatives of the Protecting Powers at the time of visits to the camp.

Verb

visits

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of visit
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     Please you, sir,
     Do not omit the heavy offer of it:
     It seldom visits sorrow; when it doth,
     It is a comforter.