 6 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pilgrim
noun
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pilgrim \Pil"grim\, adjective
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pilgrim \Pil"grim\, noun [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pilgrim \Pil"grim\, verb (used without an object)
To journey; to wander; to ramble. [R.] --Grew. Carlyle.
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, noun 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.
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