visitation
[noun]
Synonyms:
- inspection, examination, visit
- catastrophe, blight, calamity, cataclysm, disaster, ordeal, punishment, scourge

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Related Words: mischance, calamity, catastrophe, disaster

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

vis‧i‧ta‧tion /ˌvɪzəˈteɪʃən, ˌvɪzɪˈteɪʃən/ noun
[Word Family: noun: visit, visitor, visitation; verb: visit, revisit]

1. [uncountable and countable] formal an official visit to a place or person

2. [uncountable and countable] law an occasion when a parent is allowed to spend time with the children after a divorce, or the right to do this:
visitation rights

3. [countable] an occasion when God or a spirit is believed to appear to someone on earth

4. [countable] literary an event that is believed to be God’s punishment for something:
a visitation of plague

5. [countable] a long visit from someone that you do not want to see – used humorously

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲