pilgrimage

 
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪlgrɪmɪdʒ/

noun

  • a pilgrim’s journey: he wanted to go on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela [mass noun]: a place of pilgrimage
  • a journey to a place of particular interest or significance: his passion was opera and he made annual pilgrimages to Bayreuth
  • chiefly literary life viewed as a journey: now is the thirty-first year of my dark pilgrimage on this earth

verb

[no object, with adverbial of direction]
  • go on a pilgrimage: thousands pilgrimage there every year

Origin:

Middle English: from Provençal pelegrinage, from pelegrin (see pilgrim)