VISOR
What does "VISOR" mean?
A projecting front piece on a cap, helmet, or car that shields the eyes.
Meanings
- A stiff brim at the front of a cap or helmet that shades or shields the eyes. She tugged the visor of her cap lower against the sun.
- The movable front part of a helmet that can be lowered over the face. The knight lowered his visor before the joust. technical
- A small hinged flap inside a car above the windscreen to block glare. He flipped down the sun visor as he drove west.
Did you know?
- A 'visor' was literally a face-cover: it grew from Old French 'vis', meaning 'face', the same root behind 'visage'.
Word origin
From Anglo-French 'viser', from Old French 'visiere', from 'vis' (face), from Latin 'visus' (sight, appearance), from 'videre' (to see).
Remember it
VISOR guards your 'VISion' - both start with VIS, the Latin root for sight.
A little poem
Down comes the visor; the world goes thin and bright-
the face withheld can finally read the light.
couplet
Wordplay
- The knight kept losing arguments because every time he made a point, he had to put his visor down to face it.
What it teaches
What shields your eyes also narrows them; protection always costs a little of your view.
Quick facts
What does VISOR mean?
A projecting front piece on a cap, helmet, or car that shields the eyes.
Is VISOR a valid word?
Yes — VISOR is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is VISOR?
VISOR has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does VISOR come from?
From Anglo-French 'viser', from Old French 'visiere', from 'vis' (face), from Latin 'visus' (sight, appearance), from 'videre' (to see).
What can VISOR teach us?
What shields your eyes also narrows them; protection always costs a little of your view.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.