1. Visitor（通用型） -- 最中性广泛的术语，指任何到访者 -- 适用场景：公共场所访客（museum visitors）、社交拜访 -- 例：The art exhibition attracted over 10,000 visitors last month.
2. Visitant（文学/特殊语境） -- 带有文学或超自然色彩 -- 常见用法：天使/幽灵等超自然访客（celestial visitant），或候鸟等周期性造访者 -- 例：The old man claimed to have seen nocturnal visitants in ...(以上内容有节略,please sign in for more)500
【Visitor】 , 【visitant】 , 【guest】 , 【caller】 mean one who visits another or comes to pay a visit.
【Visitor】 is the general word applicable to anyone who comes under this description, but it is especially applicable to one who makes a friendly visit or one who comes in the cause of charity, social service, or investigation.
【Visitant】 is applied especially to a 【visitor】 who is or seems to be from another sphere (as heaven or hell).
As compared with 【visitor】 , 【guest】 emphasizes the idea of hospitable entertainment; it applies therefore chiefly to one who comes as a result of an invitation.
It also is often used, sometimes in the expanded form paying 【guest】 , of a lodger or boarder, and is used regularly for patrons of a restaurant or hotel.
【Caller】 is applicable not only to one who comes for a social or business call (see under VISIT ) but to anyone regardless of his intentions who seeks entrance to one's home or office.
