PILGRIM

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• PILGRIM (noun)
  The noun PILGRIM has 3 senses:

1. someone who journeys in foreign lands

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

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

  Familiarity information: PILGRIM used as a noun is uncommon.

• PILGRIM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who journeys in foreign lands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("pilgrim" is a kind of...):

journeyer; wayfarer (a traveler going on a trip)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Pilgrim; Pilgrim Father

Hypernyms ("Pilgrim" is a kind of...):

colonist; settler (a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("pilgrim" is a kind of...):

believer; worshiper; worshipper (a person who has religious faith)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pilgrim"):

hadji; haji; hajji (an Arabic term of respect for someone who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca)

 Context examples 

But, Amy was a young pilgrim, and just now her burden seemed very heavy.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Down, pride, down!” cried the pilgrim, still beating upon his chest.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He may be stern; he may be exacting; he may be ambitious yet; but his is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Rarely did that hour of the evening come, rarely did I wake at night, rarely did I look up at the moon, or stars, or watch the falling rain, or hear the wind, but I thought of his solitary figure toiling on, poor pilgrim, and recalled the words: “I'm a going to seek her, fur and wide. If any hurt should come to me, remember that the last words I left for her was, “My unchanged love is with my darling child, and I forgive her!””

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

For an instant, in his earnest gaze and reverent manner, we seemed to catch a glimpse of the deeper, truer Nelson, the man of the Eastern counties, steeped in the virile Puritanism which sent from that district the Ironsides to fashion England within, and the Pilgrim Fathers to spread it without.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All his past was the Venusburg motif, while her he identified somehow with the Pilgrim's Chorus motif; and from the exalted state this elevated him to, he swept onward and upward into that vast shadow-realm of spirit-groping, where good and evil war eternally.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And Jo tramped away, feeling that the pilgrims were not setting out as they ought to do.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Kind stranger, answered the pilgrim, you have unwittingly spoken words which are very grievous to me to listen to.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A few dull courts and narrow ways brought us to the sky-lighted offices of Spenlow and Jorkins; in the vestibule of which temple, accessible to pilgrims without the ceremony of knocking, three or four clerks were at work as copyists.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Now," he continued, again addressing me, "I have received the pilgrim—a disguised deity, as I verily believe. Already it has done me good: my heart was a sort of charnel; it will now be a shrine."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)