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Definition of Pilgrim
1. Noun. Someone who journeys in foreign lands.
2. 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.
3. Noun. Someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion.
Definition of Pilgrim
1. n. A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.
2. a. Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages.
3. v. i. To journey; to wander; to ramble.
Definition of Pilgrim
1. Proper noun. A settler of the Plymouth Colony. Usually used in plural. ¹
2. Noun. (soccer) someone connected with Plymouth Argyle Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc. ¹
3. Noun. One who travels, especially on a journey to visit sites of religious significance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pilgrim
1. a traveler or wanderer [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pilgrim
Literary usage of Pilgrim
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1909)
"(Exit) What, Boastfulness, hath felt the prick THE LITTLE pilgrim : Steadfast,
fare thee well. Of Truth's sharp needle reaching to your quick ? ..."
2. Poems of American History by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1908)
"THE pilgrim FATHERS WELL worthy to be magnified are they Who, ... Still lies
where he laid his houseless bead, — But the pilgrim! where is he? ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1769)
"Dialogues between a pilgrim, Adam, Koah, and Cleophas ; containing the ...
dead : this however is not the cafe ; they are the dialogues of a pilgrim with ..."
4. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"A shape with amice wrapped around, With a wrought Spanish baldric bound, 460 Like
pilgrim from beyond the sea; And knew — but how it mattered not — It was ..."
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