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visitant

Archaic Terms
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

An archaic term for a guest, short-term visitor, or ghost/apparition that pays a temporary, unexpected visit to a person or place.

Detailed Definition
Visitant is a literary or archaic word for someone or something that comes to visit, sometimes with a ghostly sense. In “What I love shall come like visitant of air,” it makes the beloved seem mysterious and almost supernatural.
Example
Example in poetry:
“What I love shall come like visitant of air” uses visitant as a formal noun for a visitor or apparition; Yeats’s airy visitant suggests a presence that arrives briefly and cannot be held; “A visitant of snow touched the sill at dawn” gives weather the role of guest; ghost poems often call the dead a visitant to stress their temporary return
Additional Notes
In “like visitant of air,” visitant is a rare literary word rather than a common modern term.; Found in the poem, The Visionary by Emily Brontë
Also Known As
visitor guest arrival sojourner
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