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Idiom

pay a visit

Meaning

To visit.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“I plan to pay a visit to my grandmother today.”

“Since you are in the neighborhood, why not pay a visit to the new art gallery?”

“After years of living abroad, he decided to pay a visit to his ancestral home to reconnect with his family history.”

Examples

simple

“I plan to pay a visit to my grandmother today.”

contextual

“Since you are in the neighborhood, why not pay a visit to the new art gallery?”

complex

“After years of living abroad, he decided to pay a visit to his ancestral home to reconnect with his family history.”

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