Visitor
A visitor, in English and Welsh law and history, is an overseer of an autonomous ecclesiastical or eleemosynary institution, often a charitable institution set up for the perpetual distribution of the founder's alms and bounty, who can interve ...
, in English and Welsh law, is an academic or ecclesiastical title.
Visitor or Visitors may also refer to:
Geography
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Visitor (mountain)
Visitor ( cnr, Виситор) is a mountain in the Dinaric Alps in Montenegro
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, a mountain in eastern Montenegro
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Lake Visitor
Lake Visitor ( sr, Виситорско језеро, Visitorsko јezero) is a lake in the Plav Municipality, Montenegro.
It is a mountain lake, noted for its floating island
A floating island is a mass of floating aquatic plants, mud, and ...
, a mountain lake in eastern Montenegro
Literature
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''Visitor'' (novel), a novel by C. J. Cherryh
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''The Visitor'' (Applegate novel), an ''Animorphs'' novel by K. A. Applegate
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''The Visitors'' (novel), a novel by Clifford D. Simak
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''Visitors'' (Card novel), a novel by Orson Scott Card
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''The Visitor'' (Child novel)
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''Visitors'' (''Buffy'' novel)
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''The Visitors'' (play), a play by Joe Orton
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''Visitors'' (play), a play by Barney Norris
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The Visitor (short story)
"The Visitor" is a 1965 short story by British writer Roald Dahl, centered on the fictional Uncle Oswald and the lurid adventures he describes in his elaborate diaries. In this story, set in 1946, Oswald has amorous designs on his Syrian host's ...
, a 1965 short story by Roald Dahl
* ''The Visitor'', a novel by
Sheri S. Tepper
*''The Visitor'', a novella by
Maeve Brennan
Maeve Brennan (January 6, 1917 – November 1, 1993) was an Irish short story writer and journalist. She moved to the United States in 1934 when her father was appointed to the Irish Legation in Washington. She was an important figure in bot ...
* ''The Visitor'', a
Valiant Comics
Valiant Comics is an American comic book publisher. The company was founded in 1989 by former Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Jim Shooter along with lawyer and businessman Steven Massarsky. In 1994, the company was sold to Acclaim Entertainment ...
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Film
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''The Visitor'' (1974 film), an Italian comedy film
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''The Visitor'' (1979 film), a thriller by Giulio Paradisi
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''The Visitor'' (2002 film), an Australian film by Dan Castle
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''The Visitor'' (2007 feature film), a U.S. feature film by Thomas McCarthy
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''The Visitor'' (2007 short film), a short film by Dave Smith
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''The Visitor'' (2008 film), a Finnish film
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''The Visitor'' (2015 film), a Turkish film
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''The Visitors'' (1972 film), a drama by Elia Kazan
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''The Visitors'' (1988 film), a 1988 Swedish horror film
* ''The Visitors'', a 1993 French comedy film also known as ''
Les Visiteurs
''Les Visiteurs'' (; en, The Visitors) is a French fantasy comedy film directed by Jean-Marie Poiré and released in 1993. In this comedy, a 12th-century knight and his squire travel in time to the end of the 20th century and find themselves adr ...
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* ''The Visitors'', the working title of the 2014 film ''
Extraterrestrial''
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''Visitor'' (2021 film), a Spanish-Catalan film
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''Visitors'' (2003 film), an Australian horror film
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''Visitors'' (2013 film), an American documentary film
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''The Visitor'' (2022 film), a Blumhouse film
Television
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''The Visitor'' (TV series), an American series
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"The Visitor" (''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'')
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"Visitor" (''Smallville'')
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Visitors (V science fiction franchise)
''V'' is a science fiction franchise created by American writer, producer and director Kenneth Johnson about a genocidal invading alien race known as the "Visitors"—reptilian humanoids disguised as human beings—trying to take over Earth, ...
, a fictional alien race
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''The Whispers'' (TV series) or ''The Visitors'', a 2015 American TV series
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''Návštěvníci'' (TV series) or ''The Visitors'', a Czechoslovak series
* "The Visitor", a
''Ben 10'' episode
* "The Visitors", a ''
Monty Python's Flying Circus
''Monty Python's Flying Circus'' (also known as simply ''Monty Python'') is a British surreal sketch comedy series created by and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam, who became known ...
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Music
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''The Visitors'' (opera), an opera by Carlos Chávez
Bands
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Visitor (band)
Visitor (band) is a UK-based electronic music group, formed in London in late 2009. Its two founding members, Kyle Gibson and Lucas Gianello, were born in Australia and met at high school, where they formed their first band, one of many leadin ...
, a UK-based electronic music group
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The Visitors (Australian band)
The Visitors were an Australian rock band formed in 1978 after the breakup of popular punk rock band Radio Birdman. The songs were written by Deniz Tek but unlike many other Tek bands, Tek did not sing vocals in ''The Visitors''. Instead the ...
, a rock band formed in 1978 in Sydney
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The Visitors (American band)
The Visitors were an American rock music, rock band that formed in Little Rock, Arkansas in the summer of 1997. They played a brand of rock with very fuzzy tones and emphasized anthemic melodies with prevalent harmonies. Headed by singer-songwrit ...
, a rock band formed in 1997 in Little Rock, Arkansas
* Visitors, a French rock music project produced in the 1970s by
Jean-Pierre Massiera
Jean-Pierre Massiera (10 July 1941 – 28 December 2019),Jean Garand, Larsen Nick, Liner notes for ''Jean-Pierre Massiera: Psychoses Freakoid (1963-1978)'', Mucho Gusto Records, 2008 sometimes referred to by his initials JPM, was a French mus ...
Albums
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''The Visitors'' (ABBA album) (1981)
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''The Visitor'' (Arena album) (1998)
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''The Visitor'' (Mick Fleetwood album) (1981)
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''Visitor'' (album), an album by onelinedrawing
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''The Visitor'' (Jim O'Rourke album)
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''The Visitor'' (UFO album) (2009)
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''The Visitors'' (The Visitors album) (1983)
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''The Visitor'' (Neil Young album) (2017)
* ''Visitors'', a 1977 album by
Automatic Man
Automatic Man was an American rock band from San Francisco. Consisting of well-respected musicians of diverse backgrounds within the rock, funk and jazz communities of the mid-1970s, Automatic Man played progressive rock and space rock.
Despit ...
Songs
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"Visitors" (song), a 1985 song by Koto
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"The Visitors" (song), a song by ABBA
* "The Visitor", a song by the Black Heart Procession from ''
Amore del Tropico
''Amore del Tropico'' is the fourth studio album by the American indie rock band The Black Heart Procession
The Black Heart Procession (occasionally spelled The Blackheart Procession) is an American indie rock band from San Diego, Californi ...
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* "The Visitor", a song by IU from her 2019 EP ''
Love Poem
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in a ...
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* "Visitor", a song by Of Monsters and Men from their 2022 EP Tíu
Video games
* The Visitor, a ''
Fortnite: Battle Royale character that'' was the primary start of the Season 4 "Launch Off!" event and the Season X "The End" event.
Other uses
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''The Visitor'' (newspaper), a Morecambe newspaper
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''The Visitors'' (installation), a 2012 installation and video art piece by Ragnar Kjartansson
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Visitor (fish), a species of
velvetfish
Little velvetfishes or simply velvetfishes are a Family (biology), family, the Aploactinidae, of marine ray-finned fishes classified within the order Scorpaeniformes. They are small fish that have skin with a velvet texture. They live on the sea ...
''Adventor elongatus'' from Australia and New Guinea
People with the surname
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Nana Visitor
Nana Tucker ( ; born July 26, 1957), known professionally as Nana Visitor, is an American actress, best known for playing Kira Nerys in the television series ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' and Jean Ritter in the television series ''Wildfire''.
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(born 1957), American actress
See also
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Apostolic visitor
In the Catholic Church, an apostolic visitor (or ''Apostolic Visitator''; Italian: Visitatore apostolico) is a papal representative with a transient mission to perform a canonical visitation of relatively short duration. The visitor is depute ...
, in the Roman Catholic Church, a representative of the Pope assigned to perform a canonical visitation
* Board of visitors, one of several alternative terms for a
board of directors
A board of directors (commonly referred simply as the board) is an executive committee that jointly supervises the activities of an organization, which can be either a for-profit or a nonprofit organization such as a business, nonprofit organiz ...
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Canonical visitation
In the Catholic Church, a canonical visitation is the act of an ecclesiastical superior who in the discharge of his office visits persons or places with a view to maintaining faith and discipline and of correcting abuses. A person delegated to car ...
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Health visitor, a nurse working in community health in the UK
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Prison visitor A prison visitor is a person who visits prisons to befriend and monitor the welfare of prisoners in general, as distinct from a person who visits a specific prisoner to whom they have a prior connection. Prisons may also have a visiting committee.
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, a person who visits prisons to befriend prisoners and monitor their welfare
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Provincial episcopal visitor
A provincial episcopal visitor (PEV), popularly known as a flying bishop, is a Church of England bishop assigned to minister to many of the clergy, laity and parishes who on grounds of theological conviction, "are unable to receive the ministry of ...
, a Church of England bishop assigned to minister to clergy, laity and parishes who do not accept the ministry of women priests
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Quinquennial Visit Ad Limina
A quinquennial visit ''ad limina'', or simply an ''ad limina'' visit, is the required visit of Catholic residential diocesan bishops and certain prelates with territorial jurisdiction (such as territorial abbots) to the ''thresholds of the'' om ...
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Unique visitor
Website popularity is commonly determined using the number of unique users, and the metric is often quoted to potential advertisers or investors. A website's number of unique users is usually measured over a standard period of time, typically a m ...
, a statistic describing a unit of traffic to a website
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Visiting scholar
In academia, a visiting scholar, visiting researcher, visiting fellow, visiting lecturer, or visiting professor is a scholar from an institution who visits a host university to teach, lecture, or perform research on a topic for which the visitor ...
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Visitor health insurance
Visitor health insurance, also known as visitor medical insurance, is a form of short-term travel medical insurance policy that visitors to any country purchase to obtain coverage protection for accidental injury or sickness or illness that occurs ...
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Visitor management
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Visitor pattern
In object-oriented programming and software engineering, the visitor design pattern is a way of separating an algorithm from an object structure on which it operates. A practical result of this separation is the ability to add new operations to ...
, a software design pattern
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Visitor visa
A visa (from the Latin ''charta visa'', meaning "paper that has been seen") is a conditional authorization granted by a polity to a foreigner that allows them to enter, remain within, or leave its territory. Visas typically include limits on t ...
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