Pilgrim Definition
pĭlgrəm
pilgrims
noun
A person who travels about; wanderer.
Webster's New World
A person who travels to a shrine or holy place as a religious act.
Webster's New World
A person who travels, especially to foreign lands or to a place of great personal importance.
American Heritage
Any member of the band of English Puritans who founded Plymouth Colony in 1620
Webster's New World
pronoun
A settler of the Plymouth Colony. Usually used in plural.
Wiktionary
Other Word Forms of Pilgrim
Noun
Singular:
pilgrimPlural:
pilgrimsOrigin of Pilgrim
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Middle English (early 13th century) pilegrim, from Old French pelegrin (11th century), from Latin peregrinus (“foreigner") (English peregrine (“wandering")), a derivation from per-egre; see per- + agri (“field, farm") (from which English agri- (“farming")).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old French peligrin from Late Latin pelegrīnus alteration of Latin peregrīnus foreigner peregrine
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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The change of -r...r- to -l...r- is an effect of dissimilation in early Romance; compare Italian cognate pellegrino.
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