pilgrim

noun

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

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

someone who journeys in foreign lands

Roots

peregrinuspilgrim- · Latin · foreign, traveling

Synonyms for pilgrim

wayfarern journeyern travelern viator religiousadj trekkern beadsmann friarn

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