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