pilgrim

[pilĀ·grim]

One of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620

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A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.

Noun
someone who journeys in foreign lands

Noun
some one who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion

Noun
one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620


n.
A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.

n.
One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to Loretto; Canterbury pilgrims. See Palmer.

a.
Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages.

v. i.
To journey; to wander; to ramble.


Pilgrim

Pil"grim , n. [OE. pilgrim, pelgrim, pilegrim, pelegrim; cf. D. pelgrim, OHG. piligr'c6m, G. pilger, F. p'8alerin, It. pellegrino; all fr. L. peregrinus a foreigner, fr. pereger abroad; per through + ager land, field. See Per-, and Acre, and cf. Pelerine, Peregrine.] 1. A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.
Strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
2. One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to Loretto; Canterbury pilgrims. See Palmer. P. Plowman.

Pilgrim

Pil"grim, a. Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages. "With pilgrim steps." Milton. Pilgrim fathers, a name popularly given to the one hundred and two English colonists who landed from the Mayflower and made the first settlement in New England at Plymouth in 1620. They were separatists from the Church of England, and most of them had sojourned in Holland.

Pilgrim

Pil"grim, v. i. To journey; to wander; to ramble. [R.] Grew. Carlyle.

A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.

Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages.

To journey; to wander; to ramble.

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Usage Examples

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition.

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Other Usage Examples

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

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