visitant

1 a person who visits another the groundless theory that these ancient monuments were built by extraterrestrial visitants Synonyms caller, drop-in, frequenter, guest, visitorRelated Words houseguest; company; invitee; crasher, hanger-onNear 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, ghost, wraithRelated 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