pilgrim

[ pil-grim, -gruh m ]

/ ˈpɪl grɪm, -grəm /

noun

a person who journeys, especially a long distance, to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion: pilgrims to the Holy Land.

a traveler or wanderer, especially in a foreign place.

an original settler in a region.

(initial capital letter) one of the band of Puritans who founded the colony of Plymouth, Mass., in 1620.

a newcomer to a region or place, especially to the western U.S.

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Origin of pilgrim

1150–1200; Middle English pilegrim, pelegrim, cognate with Old Frisian pilegrīm, Middle Low German pelegrīm, Old High German piligrīm, Old Norse pīlagrīmr, all < Medieval Latin pelegrīnus, dissimilated variant of Latin peregrīnus peregrine

OTHER WORDS FROM pilgrim

pil·gri·mat·ic, pil·gri·mat·i·cal, adjective

Words nearby pilgrim

pileus, pilewort, pilfer, pilferage, pilgarlic, pilgrim, pilgrim bottle, pilgrim fathers, pilgrim's progress, pilgrimage, pilgrimage of grace

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We are pilgrims, our life is a long walk or journey from earth to heaven.
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After all, Spanish conquistadors arrived in the early 1500s, well before the Jamestown settlers in 1607 or the Pilgrims in 1620.
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In Mauritania, Chinguetti once flourished with scholars, pilgrims, and religious leaders.
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Some are pilgrims from out of town, come to savor the best granola on the West Coast.
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Last year, more than 20,000 pilgrims visited for the November anniversary.
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In all probability most of Zerubbabel's and Ezra's pilgrims had been in humble circumstances.
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Palestine has been a land of pilgrims and tourists from the very beginning of its history.
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The cathedral was built with money collected from pilgrims who flocked to the city in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
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Pilgrims, I desire first to thank those undergraduates of Oxford.
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That question happily was settled for the United States with the landing of the Pilgrims.
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British Dictionary definitions for pilgrims (1 of 2)

pilgrim

/ (ˈpɪlɡrɪm) /

noun

a person who undertakes a journey to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion

any wayfarer

Word Origin for pilgrim

C12: from Provençal pelegrin, from Latin peregrīnus foreign, from per through + ager field, land; see peregrine

British Dictionary definitions for pilgrims (2 of 2)

Pilgrim

/ (ˈpɪlɡrɪm) /

noun

See Canterbury Pilgrims (def. 2)

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Cultural definitions for pilgrims

Pilgrims

A group of English Puritans, persecuted in their own country, who emigrated to America. The first group arrived on the Mayflower in 1620. They landed at Plymouth Rock, in what is now Massachusetts, and established the Plymouth Colony, with the Mayflower Compact as their constitution. William Bradford and Miles Standish were noted leaders of the colony.

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