- visit with someone
- visit with someoneto pay a social call on someone. •
I
would like to come by and visit with you for a while.
•I will enjoy visiting with you.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
visit with someone
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visit with — (N American) 1. To visit 2. To be a guest with 3. To chat with • • • Main Entry: ↑visit * * * visit with [phrasal verb] visit with (someone) US : to spend time talking informally with ( … Useful english dictionary
visit with — PHRASAL VERB If you visit with someone, you go to see them and spend time with them. [AM] [V P n] I visited with him in San Francisco … English dictionary
visit — To visit with someone, i.e. pay them a brief call, is now regarded as an Americanism although it was current in Britain in the 19c, occurring for example in writings of Ruskin and George Eliot (Middlemarch, 1872) … Modern English usage
visit — [viz′it] vt. [ME visiten < OFr visiter < L visitare, freq. < visere, to go to see < visus: see VISION] 1. to go or come to see (someone) out of friendship or for social reasons 2. to stay with as a guest for a time 3. to go or come to … English World dictionary
visit — ► VERB (visited, visiting) 1) go to see and spend time with (someone) socially or as a guest. 2) go to see and spend time in (a place) as a tourist or guest. 3) go to see for a purpose. 4) (with reference to something harmful or unpleasant)… … English terms dictionary
visit — vis|it1 W1S2 [ˈvızıt] v [Date: 1100 1200; : Old French; Origin: visiter, from Latin visitare, from visere to go to see , from videre; VISION] 1.) [I and T] to go and spend time in a place or with someone, especially for pleasure or interest ▪… … Dictionary of contemporary English
visit — vis|it1 [ vızıt ] verb *** 1. ) intransitive or transitive to go to see someone and spend some time with them: Lee wants to visit his mother in the hospital. I visit my family every year at Christmas. We only use this room when friends come to… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
visit */*/*/ — I UK [ˈvɪzɪt] / US verb Word forms visit : present tense I/you/we/they visit he/she/it visits present participle visiting past tense visited past participle visited 1) [intransitive/transitive] to go and see someone and spend some time with them… … English dictionary
visit — 1 / vIzit/ verb 1 (I, T) to go and spend time in a place or with someone, especially for pleasure or interest: “Do you live here?” “No, we re just visiting”. | visit sth: We hope to visit the Grand Canyon on our trip. | visit sb: Aunt Jane… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
Visit of King George IV to Scotland — The 1822 visit of King George IV to Scotland was the first visit of a reigning monarch to Scotland since 1650. Government ministers had pressed the King to bring forward a proposed visit to Scotland, to divert him from diplomatic intrigue at the… … Wikipedia
Visit to the Blessed Sacrament — usually high church.The term visit means to go and talk with someone who stays in a place which is at a certain distance from one s own. A visit to the Blessed Sacrament then is the act of going to talk with Jesus Christ whom Catholics believe is … Wikipedia
