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visa

noun
/ˈviːzə/US/ˈʋi.zɑ/

Etymology

From 1831, "official signature or endorsement on a passport," from French visa, from Latin charta vīsa (“paper that has been seen”) from feminine perfect passive of Latin vidēre (“to see”). Compare vision, video, vista.

  1. derived from video
  2. derived from charta vīsa
  3. derived from visa

Definitions

  1. A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country…

    A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited.

    • I came on a six-month tourist visa.
    • However, I couldn't continue by land to Georgia, as I would have liked: Russia still maintains its crazy, Sovietesque visa regulations, which makes getting a transit visa extremely difficult and extremely expensive.

  2. To endorse (a passport, etc.).

    • "Let me tell you that I am going to spit into that coffee! Yes, and if you do not get me my passport visaed this very minute, I shall take it to Monsignor myself.”

  3. A credit card company.

    • Got PayPal or Visa, whatever'll please ya As long as I've got the dough.
    • Paying with Visa abroad uses the same high-tech, anti-fraud systems as at home, so your payments are safe wherever you are.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Alternative spelling of visa.

    2. A credit card issued by the credit card company Visa.

    3. A credit card.

    4. Initialism of vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for visa. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA