pilgrim

pilgrim

/ˈpɪlɡrɪm/

1 ​a person who travels to a holy place for religious reasons

Muslim pilgrims on their way to Mecca

Christian pilgrims visiting Lourdes

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims flock to Lourdes every year.

Millions of pilgrims travel to Mecca.

They were following one of the great medieval pilgrim routes.

2 Pilgrim a member of the group of English people (the Pilgrim Fathers) who sailed to America on the ship The Mayflower in 1620 and started a colony in Massachusetts

Word Origin

Middle English: from Provençal pelegrin, from Latin peregrinus ‘foreign’, from peregre ‘abroad’, from per- ‘through’ + ager ‘field’.

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