n. & v.
--n.
1. a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.
2 a person regarded as journeying through life etc.
3 a traveller.
--v.intr. (pilgrimed, pilgriming) wander like a pilgrim.
Phrases and idioms:
Pilgrim Fathers English Puritans who founded the colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620.
Derivatives:
pilgrimize v.intr. (also -ise).
Etymology: ME pilegrim f. Prov. pelegrin f. L peregrinus stranger: see PEREGRINE