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pilgrim

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1. pilgrim - Noun

2. pilgrim - Adjective

3. pilgrim - Verb

4. Pilgrim - Proper noun

Meaning

A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.

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.

Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages.

To journey; to wander; to ramble.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow. Percy Bysshe Shelley

It seems to be expected of every pilgrim up the slopes of the mathematical Parnassus, that he will at some point or other of his journey sit down and invent a definite integral or two towards the increase of the common stock. James Joseph Sylvester

Our Pilgrim stock wuz pithed with hardihood. James Russell Lowell

The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell on their knees; then they fell upon the aborigines. American Proverb

A mule can go to mecca, but it will not come back as a pilgrim. Arabic Proverb

The pilgrim fathers landed on the shores of america. American Proverb

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