Wiktionary

visitation

See also: Visitation

English

edit
 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology

edit

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

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

visitation (countable and uncountable, plural visitations)

  1. The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.
    • 1995, United States. National Park Service. Denver Service Center, Draft, Frontcountry Development Concept Plan, page I:
      Existing visitor facilities for both frontcountry areas experience crowding during the summer season, when the park receives most of its visitation, […]
    • 2007, Baxter's Practical Works, Volume 1: A Sum of Practical Theology, and Cases ...‎[1]:
      Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]
  2. An official visit to inspect or examine something.
  3. An encounter with supernatural beings such as ghosts or aliens.
  4. An affliction or disaster attributed to destiny, or to God.
    • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 81:
      But when the blow comes down in the fulness of expectation; when the bough is smitten while green, and the flower cut down in its spring; when the young and lovely perish, while the eyes, full of light, were fixed on the future,—then, indeed, is the visitation heavy to bear.
  5. (law) The right of a separated or divorced parent to visit a child; access.
  6. A punishment or blessing ordained by God.
  7. (ecology) An unusual and extensive irruption of a species of animals into another region.

Derived terms

edit

Translations

edit

Anagrams

edit

French

edit

Pronunciation

edit
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

edit

visitation f (plural visitations)

  1. visitation (by a spirit)

Further reading

edit

Old French

edit

Etymology

edit

Borrowed from Latin vīsitātiō.

Noun

edit

visitation oblique singular, f (oblique plural visitations, nominative singular visitation, nominative plural visitations)

  1. visitation (act of visiting)
  2. visitation (visit in order to inspect something)
  3. visitation (supernatural encounter)

References

edit

Swedish

edit

Noun

edit

visitation c

  1. a visitation (official inspection)
  2. an act of searching or frisking (someone)

Declension

edit
Declension of visitation
nominative genitive
singular indefinite visitation visitations
definite visitationen visitationens
plural indefinite visitationer visitationers
definite visitationerna visitationernas
edit

References

edit
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=visitation&oldid=82578237"