visit
n. countablen. a short stay in a place or a meeting with someone like a doctor. You use this when you go to see someone for a specific reason.
n. an act of going to see a person or place for a specific purpose, such as socialising or receiving professional care. Often used with the verb 'pay' in formal contexts.
I have a doctor's visit tomorrow morning.
The patient scheduled a follow-up visit to ensure the medication was working correctly.
While the initial visit focused on symptom management, subsequent consultations allowed the specialist to develop a comprehensive long-term treatment plan for the chronic condition.
From Middle English visiten, from Old French visiter, from Latin vīsitō, frequentative of vīsō (“behold, survey”), from videō (“see”). Cognate with Old Saxon wīsōn (“to visit, afflict”), archaic German weisen (“to visit, afflict”). Displaced native Old English sēċan (“to visit”) and sōcn (“a visit”). The noun is from French visite or the verb. Doublet of visite.
Commonly takes the preposition 'to' when referring to a place or 'with' when referring to a person.
my visit at the doctormy visit to the doctorWhen 'visit' is a noun, it is followed by the preposition 'to' rather than 'at' or 'in'.