Definition of Pilgrim Father

1. 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.

Exact synonyms: Pilgrim
Generic synonyms: Colonist, Settler

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pilgrim Father

Pigovian
Piirissaar
Pijin
Pikachu
Pikachus
Pike
Pike's Peak
Pilate
Pilates
Pilea
Pilea involucrata
Pilea microphylla
Pilea pumilla
Pilgrim
Pilgrim's Progress
Pilgrim Father (current term)
Pilgrims
Pilipino
Pill Hill
Pillars of Hercules
Pilosella
Pilosella aurantiaca
Pilosella officinarum
Pilsen
Pilsener
Pilsner
Piltdown hoax
Piltdown man
Piltz
Piltz sign

Literary usage of Pilgrim Father

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1833)
"... OF A Pilgrim Father TO ENGLAND. BY CORNELIUS WEBBE. I've trod my last step on thy strand, And now am on thy wave; To seek a home in some far land, ..."

2. The Life of General William Booth: The Founder of the Salvation Army by Harold Begbie (1920)
"... THE CHARACTER OF Pilgrim Father 1886-1887 AT the age of fifty-seven William Booth made his first visit to foreign countries. Quite simply and naturally, ..."

3. Random Recollections by Henry Brewster Stanton (1887)
"Thomas Stanton, the Indian Interpreter, and William Brewster, the Pilgrim Father. — Indian Tribes in New London County.—Sachems Uncas, Sassacus ..."

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