peregrinate

American  

[per-i-gruh-nayt] / ˈpɛr ɪ grəˌneɪt /

verb (used without object)

peregrinated, peregrinating

1. to travel or journey, especially to walk on foot.

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verb (used with object)

peregrinated, peregrinating

1. to travel or walk over; traverse.

peregrinate British  

/ ˈpɛrɪɡrɪˌneɪt /

verb

1. (intr) to travel or wander about from place to place; voyage

2. (tr) to travel through (a place)

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adjective

1. an obsolete word for foreign

Other Word Forms

• peregrinator
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of peregrinate

First recorded in 1585–95; from Latin peregrīnātus, past participle of peregrīnārī “to travel abroad”; see peregrine, -ate ¹

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Explanation

People who peregrinate are constantly on the move, traveling from one location to another. You might peregrinate from Italy to Spain to France during your European backpacking trip. The most common way to peregrinate is on foot, wandering from place to place, as when you decide to peregrinate around your city's various neighborhoods pretending you're a tourist. The word is a bit old fashioned these days, and it was first used in the late 16th century, taken from the Latin peregrinatus, "traveled abroad," or figuratively "wandered or roamed," from peregrinus, "foreign."

Example Sentences

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Regardless of how they get there, they seem to peregrinate in a fog, for which they can hardly be blamed: In Brighton Beach, questions are deeply frowned upon, then ignored.

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2018

Having those moments to pause and peregrinate keeps us nimble for the duration — and I can only imagine how salutary they are for the cast.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2017

But I seem to travel, to peregrinate, less and less—and I am reduced to living on my past accumulations.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James

The old showman and his literary coadjutor were already tackling their horses to the wagon with a design to peregrinate south-west along the sea-coast.

From Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, and, as it were, too peregrinate, as I may call it.

From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Bacon

The movement has even peregrinated into popular music.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2015

But its particular pleasures remained; New Orleans musicians who traveled north introduced others to jazz, while nightlife peregrinated toward the French Quarter and, eventually, Bourbon Street.

From Washington Post

I may well have promenaded, pedestrianized, peregrinated, ambulated, perambulated, circumambulated, hoofed, and locomoted ...

From Time Magazine Archive

Peterson has peregrinated 75,000 miles, given 1,239 exhibitions, walked goo miles around tables making 92,000 fancy shots for his uniformed audiences.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her small, white-shod feet continued to bear her onward, away from him, while his own dimmed shoes peregrinated in the opposite direction—William necessarily, yet with excruciating reluctance, accompanying them.

From Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William by Booth Tarkington

When next we meet them, Williams and Merlo are peregrinating through 1953 Italy.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2019

Vox populi: too much peregrinating, 45%; okay, 36%; no opinion, 6%; none of their business, 13%.

From Time Magazine Archive

For last January peregrinating Director Mann set out for the East Indies, sponsored by the Smithsonian and the National Geographic Society.

From Time Magazine Archive

The next morning Patty was making one of her "peregrinating toilettes."

From Patty's Butterfly Days by Carolyn Wells

A new straw hat was peregrinating along the fence near the two boys.

From Penrod by Booth Tarkington

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