Pilgrim Fathers

plural noun

1. the Pilgrim Fathers
   the English Puritans who sailed on the Mayflower to New England, where they founded Plymouth Colony in SE Massachusetts (1620)

Example Sentences

We can get a pretty good idea of the reasons which led the Pilgrim Fathers to brave everything to get away from their home land.

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It was indeed a new order of things which was introduced by the pilgrim fathers, in their removal to America.

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Do you really believe that this rock was here in the time of the Pilgrim Fathers?

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Priscilla is just like one of her own Pilgrim Fathers—only more so.

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Communism was tried and found wanting by the Pilgrim Fathers; since then it has been tried and found wanting over and over again.

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