Noun
one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620
Source: WordNetPILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who was not permitted to sing psalms through his nose in Europe, followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience. Ambrose Bierce