VISITS Synonyms: 116 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

present tense third-person singular of visit

as in sees

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 stays

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

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as in chats

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 haunts

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

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as in calls

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

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visits

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noun

plural of visit

as in sojourns

a temporary residing as another's guest my aunt always looks forward to her weeklong annual visit with her mother

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as in visitations

a coming to see another briefly for social or business reasons came by for a quick visit

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Breakthrough has relationships with several schools in the area and regularly visits schools to present its program to area fourth graders, Cox said. — Austin Horn july 1, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026 In the scene, Clinton visits Matty Bennett (Scott Grimes), who works at the local Dunkin’ Donuts. — Michael Schneider, Variety, 16 June 2026 Aracely Duarte Perez visits her father at the Imperial Beach, US-Mexico border. — Luzdelia Caballero, CBS News, 24 June 2026 At the end of the first season, when Rhaenyra’s son Lucerys visits Storm’s End to petition House Baratheon to join their cause, he and Alicent’s second son, Aemond, trade barbs. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026 The instinctive Moon visits your 2nd House of Resources, quincunxing ambitious Saturn in your 9th House of Travel, so spending choices and big plans may contradict. — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2026 Iran’s president visits Pakistan to coordinate mediation on sanctions relief, nuclear limits and rebuilding, even as disputes flare over control of Strait of Hormuz shipping lanes and how Iran can spend unfrozen assets. — Munir Ahmed, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2026 Lurie’s film opens (in black and white) with Black American soldiers getting involved in a deadly confrontation and shifts to America where a post-war Castle visits the home of a former assembly-line worker (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) to talk about her pension. — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 24 June 2026 Now, Corenswet is stepping back into his suit for Supergirl, which follows Alcock's appearance at the end of Superman, where she is introduced as Clark Kent's cousin who drunkenly visits his Fortress of Solitude and picks up Krypto, who is revealed as her pet. — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 23 June 2026

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Because healthy digital discourse now apparently requires knock-and-explain visits. — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2026 These trips can range from short visits for events or opening parties to longer trips to explore a destination and experience its vineyards, restaurants, or to source ingredients. — Aly Walansky, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2026 Their support comes at a critical time, with visits to New York City soup kitchens and food pantries near record highs and expected to increase further in response to federal funding cuts. — Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026 Raymond said on Friday that an exhaustive review of video surveillance footage from the days leading up to the explosion allegedly captured Berezovk making several reconnaissance visits to the building. — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 3 July 2026 Frequent visits to Wisconsin to share quality time — as well as scotcheroos and ham roll-ups — with her family (including Calvin, 14, Charlotte, 11, and Julian, 6) help keep her grounded to her roots. — Karla Walsh, CNN Money, 3 July 2026 The Golden Eagles have been driving around willing to play seven-on-seven against top Southern Section opponents, including visits to West Hills and Simi Valley. — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026 Curated by Our Editors Assuming NASA can pull off the necessary technological advances to get SkyFall flying on the Red Planet, the helicopters will likely deliver new discoveries about Mars and may even inform future human visits. — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 June 2026 If Markle and the children do accompany Harry outside of the capital, the family are rumored to pay visits to Warwickshire for Scotty's Little Soldiers Summer Festival and Northamptonshire to visit Princess Diana's childhood house, Althorp Estate. — Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 5 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for visits

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Headquartered in China’s eastern Jiangsu province, the company sees advanced packaging as a strategic priority as demand grows for more powerful and efficient chips, the South China Morning Post reported.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 4 July 2026
Habitat for Humanity ReStore sees higher demand for patio furniture and planters in summer.

— Shagun Khare, The Spruce, 4 July 2026

Definition of sees

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The posh pup has a home in the lobby and outside the front entrance, and sits (and stays) at the ready for belly rubs.

— Andrew Sessa, Robb Report, 2 July 2026
Any python-nabbing excursion requires adequate prep work to ensure everyone stays safe—and actually hunts the proper animals.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 July 2026

Definition of stays

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Part of the Splash Jelly Drop collection, Tory Burch’s Mini Romy reworks one of the brand’s signature shapes into a bright aquatic blue that immediately calls to mind swimming pools and cloudless skies.

— Sanika Achrekar, Glamour, 2 July 2026
If a street preacher shouts their sermon into a bullhorn on a public street, and a nearby business owner calls the police, who is in the right?

— Emily Holshouser July 2, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 July 2026

Definition of calls

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As shoppers gear up for their European summer sojourns, brands are beating the tourist rush and setting up shop across the continent with temporary seasonal stores, beach club pop-ups and limited-time activations to capture the attention and dollars of the high-spending set.

— Madeleine Schulz, Vogue, 8 June 2026
Clad in all black, James and the band cracked wise onstage with a brash, swashbuckling attitude, led constant clap-alongs, and took multiple sojourns into the crowd — and that was just during the first song.

— Daniel Kohn, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2026

Definition of sojourns

Noun

The aliens’ ability to take on the forms of stags, foxes and cardinals is also in line with what experiencers have reported about their visitations.

— Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 13 June 2026
In the new film, a shadowy government organization, not a handful of ethically minded scientists, tries to hide the existence and terrestrial visitations of aliens.

— Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 12 June 2026

Definition of visitations

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Instead, the guy talks to dead barkeeps and wields an ax more than his typewriter.

— Brian Truitt, USA Today, 1 July 2026
Albert Saijo, second semester editor of Echoes, Heart Mountain high school publication, talks things over with Hisako Takehara and Alice Tanouye, first semester co-editors.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 June 2026

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