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Definition of "visitant" []

  • A visitor; a guest. (noun)
  • A supernatural being; a ghost or specter. (noun)
  • A migratory bird that stops in a particular place for a limited period of time. (noun)
  • Visiting. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "visitant" in a sentence
  • "Possessed of more than a cursory knowledge of astronomy, he took a sick man's pleasure in speculating as to the dwellers on the unseen worlds of those incredibly remote suns, to haunt whose houses of light life came forth, a shy visitant from the rayless crypts of matter."
  • "What visitant from the gloom of the deep was I to behold?"
  • "For two hours after our arrival, Mr.C. displayed a good deal of his brilliant conversation, when he was listened to with surprise and delight by the whole circle; but at this time, unluckily, Lady -- was announced, when Mrs. Hannah, from politeness, devoted herself to her titled visitant, while the little folks retired to"