visitation
See also: Visitation
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman visitacioun, from Old French visitacion, from Latin vīsitātiō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌvɪzɪˈteɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
visitation (countable and uncountable, plural visitations)
- 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, […]
- 1995, United States. National Park Service. Denver Service Center, Draft, Frontcountry Development Concept Plan (page I)
- An official visit to inspect or examine something.
- An encounter with supernatural beings such as ghosts or aliens.
- An affliction or disaster attributed to destiny, or to God.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, 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.
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- (law) The right of a separated or divorced parent to visit a child; access.
- A punishment or blessing ordained by God.
- (ecology) An unusual and extensive irruption of a species of animals into another region.
Translations
act of visiting
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official visit
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encounter with supernatural beings
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right to see one's child
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punishment or blessing ordained by God
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Anagrams
- vitiations
French
Noun
visitation f (plural visitations)
- visitation (by a spirit)
Further reading
- “visitation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vīsitātiō.
Noun
visitation f (oblique plural visitations, nominative singular visitation, nominative plural visitations)
- visitation (act of visiting)
- visitation (visit in order to inspect something)
- visitation (supernatural encounter)
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (visitation, supplement)
- visitation on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Swedish
Noun
visitation c
- a visitation (official inspection)
- an act of searching or frisking (someone)
Declension
Declension of visitation | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | visitation | visitationen | visitationer | visitationerna |
Genitive | visitations | visitationens | visitationers | visitationernas |
Related terms
- visitera
References
- visitation in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- visitation in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)