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pilgrim

name · noun · verb · 12 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˈpɪlɡɹɪm/
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1

name

Meaning 1

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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2

noun

Meaning 2

One who travels to visit a site of religious significance.

Any traveler.

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Usage: literary

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noun

Meaning 3

One who travels to visit a site of religious significance.

An early American settler.

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Usage: broadly

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4

noun

Meaning 4

A newcomer.

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Usage: slang

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noun

Meaning 5

A silk screen formerly attached to the back of a woman's bonnet to protect the neck.

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Usage: historical

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noun

Meaning 6

A settler of the Plymouth Colony, who left for the New World in the early 17th century.

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Usage: historical, plural-normally

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noun

Meaning 7

Someone connected with Plymouth Argyle Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, soccer, sports

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8

verb

Meaning 8

To make a pilgrimage

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Usage: intransitive

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9

verb

Meaning 9

To wander; to ramble.

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Usage: archaic, intransitive

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noun

Meaning 10

someone who journeys in foreign lands

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: wayfarer, journeyer

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noun

Meaning 11

someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion

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Broader terms: believer, worshiper, worshipper

Narrower terms: hajji, hadji, haji

12

noun

Meaning 12

one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Synonyms: Pilgrim Father

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Broader terms: settler, colonist

History

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.

Across languages

Translations

125 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: pelgrim — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Albanian: pelegrin — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Albanian: haxhi — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Arabic: حَاجّ (ḥājj) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Arabic: حَجِّيّ (ḥajjiyy) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Armenian: ուխտագնաց (uxtagnacʻ) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Asturian: pelegrín — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Azerbaijani: zəvvar — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Azerbaijani: ziyarətçi — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Belarusian: пало́мнік (palómnik) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Belarusian: пілігры́м (pilihrým) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Bengali: তীর্থযাত্রী (tirthojatri) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Breton: pirc'hirin — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Bulgarian: хаджи́я (hadžíja) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Bulgarian: покло́нник (poklónnik) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Bulgarian: пилигри́м (piligrím) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Burmese: ဘုရားဖူး (bhu.ra:hpu:) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Catalan: pelegrí — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Catalan: pelegrina — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Chinese Mandarin: 朝覲者 /朝觐者 (cháojìnzhě) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Chinese Mandarin: 朝聖者 /朝圣者 (cháoshèngzhě) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Chinese Mandarin: 巡禮者 /巡礼者 (xúnlǐzhě) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Chinese Mandarin: 香客 (xiāngkè) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Czech: poutník — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Danish: pilgrim — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Dutch: pelgrim — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Esperanto: pilgrimanto — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Estonian: palverändur — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Faroese: pílagrímur — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Finnish: pyhiinvaeltaja — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • French: pèlerin — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Galician: peregrino — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Georgian: მლოცვარე (mlocvare) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • German: Pilger — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • German: Wallfahrer — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Greek: προσκυνητής (proskynitís) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Hebrew: עוֹלֵה רֶגֶל (olé régel) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Hebrew: צַלְיָן (tsalyán) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Hindi: तीर्थयात्री (tīrthayātrī) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Hungarian: zarándok — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Icelandic: pílagrímur — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Irish: oilithreach — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Italian: pellegrino — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Japanese: 巡礼者 (junreisha) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Kannada: ಯಾತ್ರಿಕ (yātrika) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Kannada: ಯಾತ್ರಾರ್ಥಿ (yātrārthi) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Kazakh: зияратшы (ziäratşy) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Khmer: បូជនីយេសក៍ (boccĕəʼniiyeeh) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Khmer: បូជនិយេសក៍ (bouccĕəʼniiyeeh) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Khmer: អ្នកធម្មយាត្រា (nĕək thŏəmmĕəʼ yiətraa) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Korean: 순례자 (sullyeja) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Northern Kurdish: hecî — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Kyrgyz: зыяратчы (zıyaratcı) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Latvian: svētceļnieks — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Lithuanian: maldininkas — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Lombard: pelegrì — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Macedonian: поклоник (poklonik) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Macedonian: аџија (adžija) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Malay: jemaah — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Mongolian: аянчин (ajančin) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Mongolian: мөргөлчин (mörgölčin) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Mongolian: бадарчин (badarčin) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Norman: pèlerîn — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Norwegian Bokmål: pilegrim — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Occitan: pelegrin — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Occitan: romieu — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Occitan: romiu — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: romeu — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: romeiro — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Pashto: زاير (zāér) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Pashto: زوار (zawãr) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Pashto: حاجي (hājí) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Pashto: اجاڼۍ (ajāṇəy) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Dari: زَائِر (zā'ir) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Dari: حَاجِی (hājī) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Iranian Persian: زائِر (zâ'er) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Iranian Persian: حاجی (hâji) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Plautdietsch: Pilja — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Polish: pielgrzym — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Polish: pątnik — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Portuguese: peregrino — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Romanian: pelerin — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Russian: пало́мник (palómnik) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Russian: пилигри́м (piligrím) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Russian: стра́нник (stránnik) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Russian: богомо́лец (bogomólec) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Scottish Gaelic: eilthireach — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Serbo-Croatian: hȍdočasnīk — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Serbo-Croatian: hȍdočasnica — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Serbo-Croatian: poklonik — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Serbo-Croatian: poklonica — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Sicilian: caminanti — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Sicilian: piḍḍigrinu — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Sicilian: zannu — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Sicilian: divutu — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Slovak: pútnik — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Slovene: romar — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Slovene: romarica — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Spanish: peregrino — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Swedish: pilgrim — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Swedish: vallfärdare — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Tagalog: peregrino — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Tajik: зиёраткунанда (ziyoratkunanda) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Tajik: ҳоҷӣ (hoji) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Tajik: тавофкунанда (tavofkunanda) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Tajik: зоир (zoyir) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Telugu: యాత్ర చేసేవాడు (yātra cēsēvāḍu) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Telugu: తీర్థయాత్రాపరుడు (tīrthayātrāparuḍu) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Telugu: యాత్రికుడు (yātrikuḍu) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Thai: ผู้แสวงบุญ (pûu-sà-wɛ̌ɛng-bun) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Thai: นักแสวงบุญ (nák-sà-wɛ̌ɛng-bun) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Thai: จาริก (jaa-rík) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Turkish: hacı — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Ottoman Turkish: حاجی (hacı) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Turkmen: zyýaratçy — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Ukrainian: проча́нин (pročányn) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Ukrainian: пало́мник (palómnyk) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Ukrainian: пілігри́м (pilihrým) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Urdu: زائِر (zāir) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Urdu: حاجی (hājī) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Uyghur: زىيارەتچى (ziyaretchi) — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Uzbek: ziyoratchi — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Vietnamese: người hành hương — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Volapük: pilgrim — traveler, especially to religious sites
  • Welsh: pererin — traveler, especially to religious sites
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