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Noun: pilgrim  pil-grim
  1. Someone who journeys in foreign lands
     
  2. Someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion
Noun: Pilgrim
  1. One of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620
    - Pilgrim Father

Derived forms: Pilgrims, pilgrims

Type of: believer, colonist, journeyer, settler, wayfarer, worshiper [US], worshipper

Encyclopedia: Pilgrim, Kentucky

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