pilgrim

5 definitions found

pilgrim - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Pilgrim \Pil"grim\, n. [OE. pilgrim, pelgrim, pilegrim,
     pelegrim; cf. D. pelgrim, OHG. piligr[imac]m, G. pilger, F.
     p[`e]lerin, It. pellegrino; all fr. L. peregrinus a
     foreigner, fr. pereger abroad; per through + ager land,
     field. See Per-, and Acre, and cf. Pelerine,
     Peregrine.]
     1. A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.
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              Strangers and pilgrims on the earth.  --Heb. xi. 13.
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     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.
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  Pilgrim \Pil"grim\, a.
     Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making
     pilgrimages. "With pilgrim steps." --Milton.
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     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.
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  Pilgrim \Pil"grim\, v. i.
     To journey; to wander; to ramble. [R.] --Grew. Carlyle.
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pilgrim - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  pilgrim
      n 1: someone who journeys in foreign lands
      2: one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on
         the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New
         England in 1620 [syn: Pilgrim, Pilgrim Father]
      3: someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious
         devotion

pilgrim - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "pilgrim":
     abbacomes, abbot, adventurer, alpinist, ascetic, astronaut,
     beadsman, brother, caloyer, camper, celibate, cenobite, climber,
     comers and goers, commuter, conventual, conventual prior,
     cosmopolite, cruiser, excursionist, explorer, fare, friar,
     globe-girdler, globe-trotter, goer, grand prior, hajji, hermit,
     hieromonach, jet set, jet-setter, journeyer, lay abbot,
     lay brother, mariner, mendicant, monastic, monk, mountaineer,
     palmer, passenger, passerby, pathfinder, pillar saint, pillarist,
     pioneer, prior, religieux, religious, rubberneck, rubbernecker,
     sailor, sightseer, straphanger, stylite, tourer, tourist,
     trailblazer, trailbreaker, transient, traveler, trekker, tripper,
     viator, visiting fireman, voortrekker, voyager, voyageur, wayfarer,
     world-traveler