See Also: pilgrim(dictionary)
Pilgrim's Way(dictionary)
pilgrim(dictionary)
Pilgrim Fathers(dictionary)
Pilgrim's Progress, The(dictionary)
Pilgrim's Pride(finance)
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Barefoot pilgrim(money)
NEW PILGRIM Credit Union(finance)
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pilgrim (iou)



pilgrim noun & verb. ME.

A. noun.
A person who travels from place to place; a traveller; a wanderer. Now chiefly poet. ME.
spec. A person who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion. ME.
A. Mason Pilgrims..traditionally gathered in Jerusalem.
A person regarded as journeying through life etc.; a person who travels in quest of something, or for respectful or sentimental reasons. ME.
Life Elvis's Memphis estate..draws 500,000 pilgrims a year.
Hist. In full Pilgrim Father. A member of the group of English Puritans who founded the colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620. Now usu. in pl. L18.
b. An original settler of any region of the US or New Zealand (Hist.); a newcomer, a recent immigrant. US & NZ. M19.
Attrib. & comb.: In the senses of 'that is a pilgrim, of or pertaining to a pilgrim or pilgrims', as pilgrim city, pilgrim cloak, pilgrim monk, pilgrim staff, etc. Special combs., as pilgrim-bottle a flat bottle with a ring on each side of the neck by which it may be hung from the waist etc.; Pilgrim Father: see sense 4 above; pilgrim's bottle = pilgrim-bottle above; pilgrim's shell Hist. (a representation of) a scallop shell carried by a pilgrim as a sign of having visited a shrine, spec. that of St James at Compostela in Spain.
b. verb intrans. Make a pilgrimage; travel or wander like a pilgrim. M16.
pilgrimer noun (rare) a pilgrim M16.
pilgrimess noun (rare) a female pilgrim L16.
pilgrimize verb intrans. & trans. (with it) make a pilgrimage (to) L16.