Pilgrim Definition

pĭlgrəm
pilgrims
noun
A person who travels about; wanderer.
Webster's New World
A person who travels to a shrine or holy place as a religious act.
Webster's New World
A person who travels, especially to foreign lands or to a place of great personal importance.
American Heritage
Any member of the band of English Puritans who founded Plymouth Colony in 1620
Webster's New World

(soccer) Someone connected with Plymouth Argyle Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

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pronoun
A settler of the Plymouth Colony. Usually used in plural.
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verb

(intransitive) To journey; to wander; to ramble.

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Other Word Forms of Pilgrim

Noun

Singular:
pilgrim
Plural:
pilgrims

Origin of Pilgrim

  • Middle English (early 13th century) pilegrim, from Old French pelegrin (11th century), from Latin peregrinus (“foreigner") (English peregrine (“wandering")), a derivation from per-egre; see per- + agri (“field, farm") (from which English agri- (“farming")).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French peligrin from Late Latin pelegrīnus alteration of Latin peregrīnus foreigner peregrine

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • The change of -r...r- to -l...r- is an effect of dissimilation in early Romance; compare Italian cognate pellegrino.

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Pilgrim Sentence Examples

  • All were silent, only the pilgrim woman went on in measured tones, drawing in her breath.

  • Hsiian Tsang, the celebrated Chinese pilgrim, visited Benares in the 7th century A.D.

  • The most meritorious act that a pilgrim can perform is to walk from the sea to the source of the river and back along the opposite bank.

  • Commissioned by Mehemet Ali to inform him about the situation in Nejd brought about by the rising power of Abdallah Ibn Rashid, Wallin left Cairo in April 1845, and crossing the pilgrim road at Ma`an, pushed on across the Syrian desert to the Wadi Sirhan and the Jauf oasis, where he halted during the hot summer months.

  • But his community was certainly still in existence in the 4th century A.D., for it is especially mentioned by Fa Hien, the Chinese pilgrim (Legge's translation, p. 62).

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