visitant

visitant

noun

Definition of VISITANT

1

a person who visits another <the groundless theory that these ancient monuments were built by extraterrestrial visitants>

Synonyms caller, drop-in, frequenter, visitant, visitor

Related Words houseguest; company; invitee; crasher, hanger-on

Near Antonyms denizen, dweller, habitant, inhabitant, occupant, resident, resider; cohost, cohostess, host, hostess

2

the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people <a nocturnal visitant that must have been the shade of his late brother, crying out for vengeance against his murderers>

Synonyms apparition, bogey (also bogie or bogy), familiar spirit, hant [dialect], haunt [chiefly dialect], materialization, phantasm (also fantasm), phantom, poltergeist, shade, shadow, specter (or spectre), spirit, spook, sprite, vision, visitant, wraith

Related Words angel, daimon, familiar, genie, genius, jinni (or jinn also djinni or djinn), shaitan; double, doppelgänger (or doppelganger), fetch; lemures, manes; incubus, lamia, succubus, vampire, zombie (also zombi); cacodemon, demon (or daemon), devil, fiend, ghoul, imp