PILGRIMAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pilgrimage mean? 

• PILGRIMAGE (noun)
  The noun PILGRIMAGE has 1 sense:

1. a journey to a sacred place

  Familiarity information: PILGRIMAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PILGRIMAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A journey to a sacred place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

pilgrim's journey; pilgrimage

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

journey; journeying (the act of traveling from one place to another)

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

hadj; haj; hajj (the fifth pillar of Islam is a pilgrimage to Mecca during the month of Dhu al-Hijja; at least once in a lifetime a Muslim is expected to make a religious journey to Mecca and the Kaaba)

 Context examples 

Some blind reasons that I had for not returning home—reasons then struggling within me, vainly, for more distinct expression—kept me on my pilgrimage.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The spirits that guarded me had provided these moments, or rather hours, of happiness that I might retain strength to fulfil my pilgrimage.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I am in the keeping of James of Compostella, to whose shrine I shall make pilgrimage, and in whose honor I vow that I will eat a carp each year upon his feast-day.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Father's best books found their way there, Mother's easy chair, Jo's desk, Amy's finest sketches, and every day Meg brought her babies on a loving pilgrimage, to make sunshine for Aunty Beth.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When I say that I started my pilgrimage at Chicago, graduated in an Irish secret society at Buffalo, gave serious trouble to the constabulary at Skibbareen, and so eventually caught the eye of a subordinate agent of Von Bork, who recommended me as a likely man, you will realise that the matter was complex.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I would have made a pilgrimage to the highest peak of the Andes, could I, when there, have precipitated him to their base.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

For my own part, my occupation in my solitary pilgrimages was to recall every yard of the old road as I went along it, and to haunt the old spots, of which I never tired.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And do I dare to ask of you to undertake my pilgrimage, to endure the hardships that I have undergone?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Never will I give up my search until he or I perish; and then with what ecstasy shall I join my Elizabeth and my departed friends, who even now prepare for me the reward of my tedious toil and horrible pilgrimage!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)