PILGRIM

pilgrim

(noun) someone who journeys in foreign lands

pilgrim

(noun) someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion

Pilgrim, Pilgrim Father

(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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

pilgrim (plural pilgrims)

One who travels, especially on a journey to visit sites of religious significance.

(slang) A newcomer.

(historical) A silk screen formerly attached to the back of a woman's bonnet to protect the neck.

Verb

pilgrim (third-person singular simple present pilgrims, present participle pilgriming, simple past and past participle pilgrimed)

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

Noun

Pilgrim (plural Pilgrims)

(historical, usually, in the plural) A settler of the Plymouth Colony.

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

Proper noun

Pilgrim

A surname.

Source: Wiktionary

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Pil"grim, n. Etym: [OE. pilgrim, pelgrim, pilegrim, pelegrim; cf. D. pelgrim, OHG. piligrim, G. pilger, F. pèlerin, 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.

Definition: 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.

Definition: To journey; to wander; to ramble. [R.] Grew. Carlyle.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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