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PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Pilgrim's Progress mean?
• PILGRIM'S PROGRESS (noun)
The noun PILGRIM'S PROGRESS has 1 sense:
1. an allegory written by John Bunyan in 1678
Familiarity information: PILGRIM'S PROGRESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An allegory written by John Bunyan in 1678
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Instance hypernyms:
allegory; apologue; fable; parable (a short moral story (often with animal characters))
Context examples
Well, you see we used to play Pilgrim's Progress, and we have been going on with it in earnest, all winter and summer.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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