'Pilgrim' definitions:
Definition of 'pilgrim'
From: WordNet
noun
Someone who journeys in foreign lands
noun
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]
noun
Someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion
Definition of 'Pilgrim'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Strangers and pilgrims on the earth. --Heb. xi. 13. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pilgrim'
From: GCIDE
- Pilgrim \Pil"grim\, a. Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages. "With pilgrim steps." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pilgrim'
From: GCIDE
- Pilgrim \Pil"grim\, v. i. To journey; to wander; to ramble. [R.] --Grew. Carlyle. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pilgrim'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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