visiting

verbnouncommon in dialogue

//ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ//

The act of someone or something that visits.

verb

1
Also a form of visitpresent participle and gerund of visit
On the other hand, the self-cleaning smokebox belongs to the latter-day period of the L.M.S.R., when the visiting U.S.A. 2-8-0s of the war had awakened an interest in such things.

noun

1
The act of someone or something that visits.
Come, you spirits […] make thick my blood, / Stop up th' access and passage to remorse / That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose[…]
I marvel at none of the wild beliefs in the Hartz mountains: fire is the element of the spiritual, and who can tell what strange visitings there may be during the midnight hours that the charcoal-burner sits watching the fitful and subtle mystery of flame?
Instead, he found the Sabbath in North Carolina "generally disregarded, or distinguished by the convivial visitings of the white inhabitants, and the noisy diversions of the negroes."

Forms

plural: visitings

visitation · The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.Visitation · The visit of the Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth; the…visited · That has received a visit or visits.

visiting · The act of someone or something that visits.

visitor · Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.vista · A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some…Vista · A city in San Diego County, California, United States.

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