<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to go to and stay with (a person or family) or at (a place) for a short time for reasons of sociability, politeness, business, curiosity, etc.: to visit a friend; to visit clients; to visit Paris.</li><li>to stay with as a guest.</li><li>to come or go to: to visit a church for prayer.</li><li>to go to for the purpose of official inspection or examination: a general visiting his troops.</li><li>to come to in order to comfort or aid: to visit the sick.</li><li>to come upon; assail; afflict: The plague visited London in 1665.</li><li>to cause trouble, suffering, etc., to come to: to visit him with sorrows.</li><li>to access, as a website.</li><li>to inflict, as punishment, vengeance, etc. (often followed by on or upon).</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to make a visit.</li><li>to talk or chat casually: to visit on the phone with a friend.</li><li>to inflict punishment.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act of or an instance of visiting: a nice, long visit.</li><li>a chat or talk: We had a good visit on the way back from the grocery store.</li><li>a call paid to a person, family, etc.</li><li>a stay or sojourn as a guest.</li><li>an official inspection or examination.</li><li>the act of an officer of a belligerent nation in boarding a vessel in order to ascertain the nature of its cargo, its nationality, etc.: the right of visit and search.</li></ul>