n. 1. A religious devotee who journeys to a shrine or sacred place. 2. A person who travels, especially to foreign lands or to a place of great personal importance. 3. Pilgrim One of the English Separatists who founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620. [Middle English, from Old French peligrin, from Late Latin pelegrīnus, alteration of Latin peregrīnus, foreigner; see PEREGRINE.] |
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