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a place
visit
to go and spend time in a place, for interest or pleasure:
• You must visit Kyoto. • They visited all the usual places.
go to
to visit a place. Go to is very commonly used in everyday English instead of visit:
• Have you ever been to England? • They went to the Eiffel Tower and the Flea Market.
go sightseeing
to visit places of interest in a country:
• We went sightseeing in the old part of the city.
a person
visit
to go and spend time with someone:
• How often do you visit your grandparents?
come around/by/over
( also come round British English ) to visit someone informally in their home, especially when you live near them:
• A few friends came round last night.
drop in/by
( also call in/by British English ) to visit someone in their home, especially on your way to another place:
• Kate said she’d drop by later to give you the forms.
look somebody up
to visit someone who you do not see very often, when you are spending time in the area where they live:
• Look me up if you’re ever in Newark.
Longman-Thesaurus
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noun ADJ. brief, fleeting, flying, quick, short | lengthy, long | eight-day, hour-long, etc. | long-awaited | regular | constant, frequent She enjoyed the frequent visits of her grandchildren. | infrequent, occasional, periodic, rare | annual, daily, twice-weekly, etc. | forthcoming, impending The prime minister has been briefed in preparation for his forthcoming visit to China. | exchange, reciprocal, return Exchange visits between company and school have kept the project going. They came to visit last week, and we'll pay them a return visit in the autumn. | surprise, unannounced, unexpected | unwelcome | casual | formal, ministerial, official, presidential, royal, state | high-profile | trade | private, unofficial | foreign, overseas | personal Following her letter of complaint, she received a personal visit from the store manager. | domiciliary, home You should receive a home visit from your midwife within a month. | hospital, prison | initial, preliminary | follow-up | social | neighbourly | educational, study | fact-finding, research | courtesy, goodwill While on holiday in Italy, the prime minister paid a courtesy visit to his opposite number in Rome. | morale-boosting | inspection, monitoring | on-site, site | school | customer | memorable VERB + VISIT go on, make, pay sb, undertake We used to go on school visits to museums and historical buildings. How many doctors are still able to make home visits? Pay us a visit next time you're in town. | get, have, receive | look forward to I'd been looking forward to my cousin's visit for ages. | arrange, organize | postpone | cancel | cut short He was forced to cut short a visit to North America. | prolong He offered her a drink to try to prolong her visit. | announce We received a letter announcing a visit from government inspectors. | be (well) worth If you're staying in Rome, Ostia is well worth a visit. VISIT + VERB mark sth, signal sth The visit signalled the normalization of relations between the two countries. PREP. during/on a/the ~ On one of her regular visits home, she told her parents she was engaged. | ~ from We had a visit from somebody collecting for charity. | ~ to a visit to the theatre, verb ADV. regularly VERB + VISIT come to, go to My parents are coming to visit me next week. We've just been to visit my grandparents. | decide to, hope to, intend to, plan to, promise to, want to, wish to | be expected to, be likely to A million people are expected to visit the museum over the next 12 months. | invite sb to, urge sb to
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