Thesaurus: pilgrim

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1. n. A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.
2. n. One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to Loretto; Canterbury pilgrims. See Palmer.
3. a. Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages.
4. v. i. To journey; to wander; to ramble.
5. 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
6. n. someone who journeys in foreign lands
7. n. someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion
8. 1. A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger. Strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Heb. xi. 13. 2. One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to Loretto; Canterbury pilgrims. See Palmer. P. Plowman. Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages. "With pilgrim steps." Milton. Pilgrim fathers, a name popularly given to the one hundred and two English colonists who landed from the Mayflower and made the first settlement in New England at Plymouth in 1620. They were separatists from the Church of England, and most of them had sojourned in Holland. To journey; to wander; to ramble. [R.] Grew. Carlyle.
9. Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages."With pilgrim steps." Milton. Pilgrim fathers, a name popularly givento the one hundred and two English colonists who landed from theMayflower and made the first settlement in New England at Plymouth in1620. They were separatists from the Church of England, and most ofthem had sojourned in Holland.
10. n:100 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 n. someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion