Definition, synonyms and related words
past participle of visit
"After visiting her grandmother last weekend, she returned home feeling refreshed and happy to see her family again."
In plain English: To have been to a place before.
"We visited our grandparents every Sunday afternoon."
That has received a visit or visits.
"The museum was visited by thousands of tourists last weekend."
In plain English: Visited means something that has been seen or gone to by someone before.
"The visited sites were crowded with tourists."
Usage: Use "visited" as an adjective only when describing something that someone has gone to see, such as a museum or website. Avoid using it to mean merely looked at from afar; if you have not entered the location in person, choose "viewed" instead.
Visited is the past tense and past participle of visit, derived from Old French visiter (to see, to inspect), which comes from Latin visitare. The original meaning was literally "to go before" or "to look at," formed from vis- (seeing) and -itare (frequentative suffix).