0 the times when you are allowed to go and spend time with someone who is in a hospital, prison, etc.:
Visiting hours are between 6 and 9 p.m.
1 the time period when you can visit someone, esp. in a hospital or prison
It is open to the public during normal visiting hours.
The normal visiting hours will not fit into the very inadequate bus connections.
There is a classroom at the end of the ward, and visiting hours are critical.
Every effort is made to meet requests for extended visiting hours.
It covered what they thought of meals, of visiting hours and of the facilities available.
The visiting hours on other days of the week are governed by administrative convenience.
He has had his typewriter and his newspapers taken away, and his visiting hours are restricted.
We have persuaded hospital authorities, by circular and other means, to extend visiting hours and in many instances to ensure that there is free visiting.
