peregrination
Americannoun
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travel from one place to another, especially on foot.
- Synonyms:
- expedition, excursion, trip
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a course of travel; journey.
- Synonyms:
- expedition, excursion, trip
noun
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a voyage, esp an extensive one
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the act or process of travelling
Etymology
Origin of peregrination
1425–75; late Middle English peregrinacioun (< Middle French peregrinacion ) < Latin peregrīnātiōn- (stem of peregrīnātiō ) a traveling abroad. See peregrinate, -ion
Explanation
If you went backpacking through Europe last summer, you could call your travels a peregrination. A peregrination is a long journey or period of wandering. Peregrination comes from the Latin peregrinari, which means “to travel abroad.” A peregrination is a journey or pilgrimage, especially one that's made on foot. This word typically applies to traveling for an extended period of time or over a great distance. So, you wouldn’t call a trip to the grocery store a peregrination. However, if you traveled the globe looking for the world’s best grocery store, you could call that a peregrination.
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Example Sentences
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The Grand Peregrination is a retracing of Pinto's story by British Author Maurice Collis, and a bizarre and fascinating one it is.
From Time Magazine Archive
I answer, Peregrination was one of the causes.
From Around The Tea-Table by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
The "Five Days' Peregrination" of Hogarth and his friends, of which Thackeray discoursed to us so agreeably in one of his lectures, occurred when the artist was thirty-four years of age.
From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James
This is an oblong MS. volume entitled An Account of what seem’d most Remarkable in the Five Days’ Peregrination of the Five Following Persons, vizt.,
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
In this March, or rather, if you please, most dismal Peregrination, we could be very rarely go two on a Breast; and oftner, like Geeze in a String, one after another.
From Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton by Defoe, Daniel
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