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Noun: pilgrim  pil-grim
  1. Someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion
    "Thousands of pilgrims make the journey to Mecca each year for the Hajj"
     
  2. Someone who journeys in foreign lands
    "The pilgrim travelled across Europe, experiencing different cultures"
Noun: Pilgrim
  1. One of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620
    - Pilgrim Father

Derived forms: pilgrims, Pilgrims

Type of: believer, colonist, journeyer, settler, wayfarer, worshiper [US], worshipper

Encyclopedia: Pilgrim, Paul