Real Dictionary

visit
passive verb: If something very unpleasant is visited upon you, it happens to you.
verb: If you visit a place, you go there for a short time.
verb: If you visit a professional person such as a doctor or lawyer, you go and see them in order to get professional advice. If they visit you, they come to see you in order to give you professional advice.
verb: If you visit a website, you look at it.
verb: If you visit someone, you go to see them and spend time with them.

visit in American English
to go or come to see (someone) out of friendship or for social reasons
intransitive verb: to make a visit
noun: the act of or an instance of visiting
transitive verb: to go to and stay with (a person or family) or at (a place) for a short time for reasons of sociability, politeness, business, curiosity, etc

visit in British English
noun: the act or an instance of visiting
verb: to go or come to see (a person, place, etc)