Pilgrim

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  • noun. A religious devotee who journeys to a shrine or sacred place.
  • noun. A person who travels, especially to foreign lands or to a place of great personal importance.
  • noun. One of the English Separatists who founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To journey or travel as a pilgrim; undertake or accomplish a pilgrimage.
  • noun. A traveler; specifically, one who journeys to some place esteemed sacred, either as a penance, or in order to discharge some vow or religious obligation, or to obtain some spiritual or miraculous benefit; hence, a wanderer; a sojourner in a foreign land.
  • noun. In American history, specifically, one of the English separatists who sailed from Delfthaven (in the Netherlands) in the “Mayflower,” touching at Southampton, England, and founded the colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts, at the end of 1620.
  • noun. A new-comer, whether a person or an animal; a “tenderfoot.”
  • noun. A curtain or screen of silk hanging from the back of a woman's bonnet to protect the neck, worn in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
  • noun. In modern times, a carved pearl shell such as are brought by travelers from the Holy Land.
  • noun. In heraldry, same as bourdon.
  • Of, pertaining to, used by, or characteristic of a pilgrim, or one who travels to a sacred place in performance of some religious duty; wandering as a pilgrim; consisting of pilgrims.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.
  • noun. One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee. See Palmer.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages.
  • adjective. 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.
  • intransitive verb. To journey; to wander; to ramble.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. One who travels, especially on a journey to visit sites of religious significance.
  • verb. To journey; to wander; to ramble.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion
  • noun. someone who journeys in foreign lands
  • 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
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    "Reloading with such a pilgrim is a teaching experience."
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