visited
past form of “visit” — go to see a place, as for entertainment
An inflected form of visit · past form.
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,418 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 7,100 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- go to see a place, as for entertainment also: see We went to see the Eiffel Tower in the morning
- go to certain places as for sightseeing also: travel to Did you ever visit Paris?
- pay a brief visit also: call in, call The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens
- come to see in an official or professional capacity also: inspect The governor visited the prisonThe grant administrator visited the laboratory
- impose something unpleasant also: inflict, bring down, impose The principal visited his rage on the students
- talk socially without exchanging too much information also: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze
visited in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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He had not visited a theatre for seven years--not since his wife's death.
Little Citizens: The Humours of School Life · Myra Kelly · Chapter 1
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Hence he was no favorite in Wythburn, where few or none visited him.
The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance · Hall, Sir Caine · Chapter 1
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They discovered a common liking for many of the places she had visited.
Pearl of Pearl Island · John Oxenham · Chapter 1
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Despite his very professional attire--perhaps, indeed, because of it--so very youthful did he appear, that Jack was visited by a qualm.
The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 · Various · Chapter 1
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Here Lord Byron occasionally visited her--about once or twice, perhaps, in the month--passing the rest of his time in perfect solitude.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement — No. 474 · Various · Chapter 1