Thesaurus: pilgrim

Related headwords

Definitions

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. 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.
9. 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