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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

pilgrim
    n 1: someone who journeys in foreign lands
    2: one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on
       the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New
       England in 1620 [syn: Pilgrim, Pilgrim Father]
    3: someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious
       devotion

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Pilgrim \Pil"grim\, a.
   Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making
   pilgrimages. "With pilgrim steps." --Milton.
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   Pilgrim fathers, 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.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Pilgrim \Pil"grim\, n. [OE. pilgrim, pelgrim, pilegrim,
   pelegrim; cf. D. pelgrim, OHG. piligr[imac]m, G. pilger, F.
   p[`e]lerin, It. pellegrino; all fr. L. peregrinus a
   foreigner, fr. pereger abroad; per through + ager land,
   field. See Per-, and Acre, and cf. Pelerine,
   Peregrine.]
   1. A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.
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            Strangers and pilgrims on the earth.  --Heb. xi. 13.
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   2. One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some
      holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to
      Loretto; Canterbury pilgrims. See Palmer. --P. Plowman.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Pilgrim \Pil"grim\, v. i.
   To journey; to wander; to ramble. [R.] --Grew. Carlyle.
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5. The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906)

PILGRIM, n.  A traveler that is taken seriously.  A Pilgrim Father was
one who, leaving Europe in 1620 because not permitted to sing psalms
through his nose, followed it to Massachusetts, where he could
personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.

Thesaurus Results for pilgrim:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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