Pilgrim

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pilgrim \Pil"grim\, v. i.
     To journey; to wander; to ramble. [R.] --Grew. Carlyle.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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 Father}]
       3: some one who journeys to a sacred place as an act of
          religious devotion

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  PILGRIM, n.  A traveler that is taken seriously.  A Pilgrim Father was
  one who, leaving Europe in 1620 because not permitted to sing psalms
  through his nose, followed it to Massachusetts, where he could
  personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.