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
Sheri Stewart Tepper (July 16, 1929 – October 22, 2016) was an American writer of science fiction, horror and mystery novels. She is primarily known for her feminist science fiction, which explored themes of sociology, gender and equality, as ...
*''The Visitor'', a novella by
Maeve Brennan
* ''The Visitor'', a
Valiant Comics title
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''
* ''The Visitors'', the working title of the 2014 film ''
Extraterrestrial
Extraterrestrial refers to any object or being beyond ( extra-) the planet Earth ( terrestrial). It is derived from the Latin words ''extra'' ("outside", "outwards") and ''terrestris'' ("earthly", "of or relating to the Earth"). It may be abbrevia ...
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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), 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 ...
'' sketch
Music
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''The Visitors'' (opera), an opera by Carlos Chávez
Bands
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Visitor (band), 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), 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
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''
* "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 ''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 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 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
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Visitor health insurance
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Visitor management
Visitor management refers to a set of practices or hardware additions that administrators can use to monitor the usage of a building or site. By gathering this information, a visitor management system can record the usage of facilities by specifi ...
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Visitor pattern, 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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