VISITING Synonyms: 103 Similar and Opposite Words

visiting

verb

Definition of visiting

present participle of visit

as in seeing

to make a social call upon the club ladies make a point of visiting everyone who moves into the neighborhood

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as in staying

to reside as a temporary guest an old friend who comes to visit for a month every summer

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as in chatting

to engage in casual or rambling conversation tries to visit with her best friend on the phone at least once a week

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as in frequenting

to go to or spend time in often visit Ireland for a few weeks every year

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as in calling

to make a brief visit stopped to visit with my father on the way out of town

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Recent Examples of visiting The year before, Milton Reynolds had discovered the pen while visiting Buenos Aires, and rushed home to create his own version, the Reynolds Rocket, which hit stores on October 29, 1945. — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026 Simply visiting a phishing page does not automatically mean your information was stolen. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026 Drivers visiting California from other areas are generally allowed to follow the license plate rules of their home states. — Sacbee.com, 25 Oct. 2026 Earlier, Marcus Thuram scored and then earned the penalty kick that decided Inter’s 2-1 win over visiting Fiorentina. — ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026 Kriemler certainly went all-in with de Amaral, visiting the 94-year-old for several days at her home in Bogotá, soaking up her wisdom about her craft. — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2026 The cold open ended with future PM Burnham (Paddy Young) visiting his present-day counterpart and giving him the idea to advise Britons to stockpile beans in case of a cyber attack. — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2026 A day later, masked settlers attacked a group of European diplomats and others visiting the Christian village of Taybeh. — Koral Saeed, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026 Sunday’s win marks only the sixth win as the visiting QB for Young. — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 18 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for visiting

Verb

Thinking that writing code was the only bottleneck for deploying new software is like the Titanic seeing the tip of the iceberg and assuming there was nothing underneath it.

— Brian Jenney, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Oct. 2026
Reading a book, a poem, seeing a painting or a sculpture, or even hearing the intro of a song.

— Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of seeing

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Inside McGuire’s Irish Pub, the moody, maze-like dining room is a far cry from the bright and airy seafood joints most vacationers are used to frequenting.

— Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2026
O’Neil remains friends with Lizzie, frequenting Maplecroft well into their old age.

— Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of frequenting

Verb

As of last week, Moore is calling offensive plays for the Cougars, and the team has also made a change at quarterback.

— Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 21 Oct. 2026
Fraschilla has been calling Big 12 basketball for a quarter-century and knows the conference landscape as well as anybody.

— Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of calling

Verb

There are Easter eggs all over, and the series offers a good excuse to rewatch the original movie to catch even more and compare the gorgeous haunting lake views.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2026
Tom Cullen and Joe Locke hadn’t worked together before Rhys Marc Jones’ haunting feature film debut Black Church Bay, but Cullen certainly was an enormous Heartstopper fan.

— Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of haunting

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The Pope woke up from surgical anesthesia without any complications, and requested dinner while conversing with Vatican staff.

— Alice Park, Time, 14 Oct. 2026
Mexican security forces, both military and police, were also observed conversing with Border Patrol agents over the international boundary.

— Ryan Devereaux, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of conversing

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