pilgrim

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
16
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈpɪlɡɹɪm/

Definition of pilgrim

9 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (literary)One who travels to visit a site of religious significance.
    “strangers and pilgrims on the earth”
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noun

  1. (literary)One who travels to visit a site of religious significance.
    “strangers and pilgrims on the earth”
  2. (broadly)One who travels to visit a site of religious significance.
  3. (slang)A newcomer.
    “"I wouldn't unfork that horse yet, pilgrim. I want a good look at ya first."”
  4. (historical)A silk screen formerly attached to the back of a woman's bonnet to protect the neck.
  5. (historical, plural-normally)A settler of the Plymouth Colony, who left for the New World in the early 17th century.
  6. Someone connected with Plymouth Argyle Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

verb

  1. (intransitive)To make a pilgrimage
    “[T]o all galleries, churches, sistine chapels, ruins, coliseums, and artistic or dilettante shrines he zealously pilgrimed[.]”
    “The tzadikim founded residences, called "courts" by their adherents, whereto the chassidim […] used to pilgrim in order to receive inspiration and salvation”
  2. (archaic, intransitive)To wander; to ramble.
    “For that he hath no certain home, or diet, but pilgrims up and down every where, feeding upon all sorts of Plants”

name

  1. A surname.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English pilegrim, from Old English pilegrī̆m, from Old French pelegrin, from Latin peregrīnus (“foreigner”). Doublet of peregrine. The change of /r…r/ to /l…r/ is an effect of dissimilation in early Romance; compare Italian pellegrino.

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