Pilgrim
['pɪlgrɪm] or ['pɪlɡrɪm]
Definition
(noun.) someone who journeys in foreign lands.
(noun.) someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion.
(noun.) one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620.
Typist: Ursula--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.
(n.) One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to Loretto; Canterbury pilgrims. See Palmer.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages.
(v. i.) To journey; to wander; to ramble.
Checker: Rudolph
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Traveller (especially on a religious errand), wanderer, wayfarer, PALMER, crusader.
Inputed by Cecile
Definition
n. one who travels to a distance to visit a sacred place: a wanderer: a traveller: a silk screen formerly attached to the back of a woman's bonnet to protect the neck: (slang) a new-comer.—adj. of or pertaining to a pilgrim: like a pilgrim: consisting of pilgrims.—ns. Pil′grimage the journey of a pilgrim: a journey to a shrine or other sacred place: the time taken for a pilgrimage: the journey of life a lifetime; Pil′grim-bott′le a flat bottle holed at the neck for a cord.—Pilgrim fathers the colonists who went to America in the ship Mayflower and founded New England in 1620; Pilgrim's shell a cockle-shell used as a sign that one had visited the Holy Land; Pilgrim's staff a long staff which pilgrims carried as a sort of badge.
Checker: Trent
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of pilgrims, denotes that you will go on an extended journey, leaving home and its dearest objects in the mistaken idea that it must be thus for their good. To dream that you are a pilgrim, portends struggles with poverty and unsympathetic companions. For a young woman to dream that a pilgrim approaches her, she will fall an easy dupe to deceit. If he leaves her, she will awaken to her weakness of character and strive to strengthen independent thought.
Typist: Marietta
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who leaving Europe in 1620 because not permitted to sing psalms through his nose followed it to Massachusetts where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.
Typed by Anton
Examples
- The Pilgrim could not forbear smiling. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Now, he continued, again addressing me, I have received the pilgrim--a disguised deity, as I verily believe. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The third and last pilgrim moved by, before long, and he said: Ah, what a tall, graceful girl! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She then said to her train, Retire, excepting only Elgitha; I would speak with this holy Pilgrim. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- At this rate it is a glorious privilege to be a pilgrim to the Holy Land. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The first in honour as in arms, in renown as in place, said the Pilgrim, was the brave Richard, King of England. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- A pilgrim--the Enthusiast--said: See that tall, graceful girl! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Pilgrim mounted with more deliberation, reaching, as he departed, his hand to Gurth, who kissed it with the utmost possible veneration. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But while the emperor asked about India, the pilgrim was disposed only to talk about Buddhism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That will I do blithely, replied the Pilgrim, and without guerdon; my oath, for a time, prohibits me from touching gold. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Well, you see we used to play Pilgrim's Progress, and we have been going on with it in earnest, all winter and summer. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Thanks, good Pilgrim, for your information concerning the companion of my childhood. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The Pilgrim, raising his finger in an attitude as if to express caution, added, Gurth, beware--thou are wont to be prudent. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The Earl of Leicester was the second, continued the Pilgrim; Sir Thomas Multon of Gilsland was the third. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I tarry not, said the Pilgrim, giving way to the urgency of his companion; but I must secure the means of leaving this place--follow me. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Lest any man think I mean to be ill-natured when I talk about our pilgrims as I have been talking, I wish to say in all sincerity that I do not. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- All the pilgrims visit Simon the Tanner's house. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Our pilgrims compress too much into one day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We entered, and the pilgrims broke specimens from the foundation walls, though they had to touch, and even step, upon the praying carpets to do it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The pilgrims took what was left of the hallowed ruin, and we pressed on toward the goal of our crusade, renowned Jerusalem. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I record it here as a notable but not discreditable fact that not even our pilgrims wept. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We have given the pilgrims a good many examples that might benefit them, but it is virtue thrown away. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Rather a rough road for you to travel, my little pilgrims, especially the latter part of it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- In 1300 he held a jubilee, and a vast multitude of pilgrims assembled in Rome. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In 1639, nineteen years after the landing of the Pilgrims on the bleak rock at Plymouth, they set up a printing press at Cambridge, Mass. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Thirty or forty pilgrims had arrived from the ship, by the short routes, and much swapping of gossip had to be indulged in. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Now, my little pilgrims, suppose you begin again, not in play, but in earnest, and see how far on you can get before Father comes home. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It is covered with a marble slab which has been much worn by the lips of pilgrims. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The preventative did not work well in the cases of our tallest pilgrims, however. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But they did do it, though--and it did them a world of good to hear the pilgrims abuse each other, too. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Checked by Lanny