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pilgrim

Pronunciation: /ˈpɪlgrɪm/
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Definition of pilgrim

noun

  • 1a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.
  • a person travelling to a place of particular personal interest:thousands of pilgrims converged in Memphis for the 16th anniversary of Presley’s death
  • chiefly literary a person regarded as journeying through life: we should recognize our status as mere pilgrims in this world
  • 2 (usually Pilgrim) a member of the Pilgrim Fathers.

verb (pilgrims, pilgriming, pilgrimed)

[no object, with adverbial of direction] archaic
  • travel or wander like a pilgrim: he pilgrimed to his old sporting places

Derivatives

pilgrimize

(also pilgrimise) verb ( archaic)

Origin:

Middle English: from Provençal pelegrin, from Latin peregrinus 'foreign' (see peregrine)

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