visitor

Plural: visitors

Noun

• A person who comes to see someone or something.
• someone who visits
• Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.
• Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.
• Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.
• A person authorized to visit an institution to see that it is being managed properly.
• An extraterrestrial being on Earth.
• An object which lands or passes by Earth or its orbit.
• A head or overseer of an institution such as a college (in which case, equivalent to the university's chancellor) or cathedral or hospital, who resolves disputes, gives ceremonial speeches, etc.
• The object in the visitor pattern that performs an operation on the elements of a structure one by one.

Examples

• The visitor to the tournament was surprised by the intense competition.

Synonyms

visitant