/viz"i teuhnt/ , n.
1. a temporary resident; visitor; guest.
2. a visitor to a place of religious or sight-seeing interest; pilgrim.
3. a being believed to come from the spirit world: a ghostly visitant.
4. something, as a mood, feeling, emotion, etc., that overtakes a person from time to time: Melancholy is an occasional visitant to all.
5. a migratory bird that has come to a place temporarily.
adj.
6. visiting; paying a visit.
[ 1590-1600; visitant- (s. of visitans ). See VISIT, -ANT ]
Syn. 1. See visitor .