Pilgrim

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A religious devotee who journeys to a shrine or sacred place.
  • n. One who embarks on a quest for something conceived of as sacred.
  • n. A traveler.
  • n. One of the English Separatists who founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. One who travels, especially on a journey to visit sites of religious significance.
  • v. To journey; to wander; to ramble.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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. See Palmer.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages.
  • verb-intransitive. To journey; to wander; to ramble.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A traveler; specifically, one who journeys to some place esteemed sacred, either as a penance, or in order to discharge some vow or religious obligation, or to obtain some spiritual or miraculous benefit; hence, a wanderer; a sojourner in a foreign land.
  • n. In American history, specifically, one of the English separatists who sailed from Delfthaven (in the Netherlands) in the “Mayflower,” touching at Southampton, England, and founded the colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts, at the end of 1620.
  • n. A new-comer, whether a person or an animal; a “tenderfoot.”
  • n. A curtain or screen of silk hanging from the back of a woman's bonnet to protect the neck, worn in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
  • n. In modern times, a carved pearl shell such as are brought by travelers from the Holy Land.
  • n. In heraldry, same as bourdon.
  • Of, pertaining to, used by, or characteristic of a pilgrim, or one who travels to a sacred place in performance of some religious duty; wandering as a pilgrim; consisting of pilgrims.
  • To journey or travel as a pilgrim; undertake or accomplish a pilgrimage.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion
  • n. someone who journeys in foreign lands
  • n. one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    journeyer    wayfarer    settler    colonist   
    Variant
    palmer   
    Form
    pilgrimage   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    wayfarer    wanderer    traveler    stranger    journey    wander    ramble   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    traveller    travelers    monk    wanderer    tourist    beggar    stranger    emigrant    adventurer    refugee