as in guest
a person who visits another put nicer clothes on because they had visitors coming

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Recent Examples of visitor Emerging from the darkness, visitors will encounter a character named Hair Sway on an overhead gangway. Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 16 Sep. 2025 The forest started reopening to visitors at the end of October 2024. Graham Averill, Outside, 16 Sep. 2025 Restaurants, shops, boutique hotels and inns, and historic buildings attract visitors to its charming downtown, lit at night by vintage-style streetlights. Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2025 The garden recorded a doubling of attendance in five years, from 323,184 visitors in 2019 to 650,882 in 2024. Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for visitor
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  • The event features a 155-foot-long table adorned with 139 candles and meticulously set with 1,452 pieces of cutlery for 160 distinguished guests, NBC News reported.
    Amanda Castro Hannah Parry Shane Croucher Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Later, the Trumps attended a state banquet, with other guests including Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman, Rupert Murdoch, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2025

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“Visitor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/visitor. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.

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