pay a visit

pay (someone or something) a visit

and pay a visit to someone or something

to visit someone or something. Bill paid a visit to his aunt in Seattle. Please pay a visit to our house whenever you are in town.

pay (somebody/something) a visit

(slightly formal) also pay a visit (to somebody/something)

to go to see someone or something Yesterday a police detective paid us a visit and asked a lot of questions. The three elderly women decided to pay a visit to a spa and had a great time.

Related vocabulary: pay a call on somebody/something

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Spas	-	Bulgarian
Tristin	TRIS-tin	English (Modern)
Mohammad	-	Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Punjabi, Pashto, Bengali
Filip	FEE-lip (Dutch), FEE-leep (Polish, Finnish)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Polish, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Mac
Abd Al-Latif	-	Arabic
Mireia	mee-RE-yə (Catalan)	Catalan, Spanish