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Pilgrim

Pilgrim Meaning & Definition
Pilgrim Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pilgrim?

[n] someone who journeys in foreign lands
[n] some one who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion
[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

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See Also | believer | colonist | hadji | haji | hajji | journeyer | settler | wayfarer | worshiper | worshipper

Pilgrim In Webster's Dictionary

\Pil"grim\, n. [OE. pilgrim, pelgrim, pilegrim, pelegrim; cf. D. pelgrim, OHG. piligr[=i]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. 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.
\Pil"grim\, a. 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.
\Pil"grim\, v. i. To journey; to wander; to ramble. [R.] --Grew. Carlyle.

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