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pilgrim (s) (noun), pilgrims (pl)
1. A person who journeys, especially a long distance to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion: Many was a pilgrim who went to the Holy Land.
2. A traveler or wanderer, especially to a foreign place: Alice told her mother tat she wanted to be a pilgrim and go on a journey to Greece.
3. One of the group of Puritans who founded the colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts: In class, Ivy learned about the Pilgrims of the English Separatists who landed on the east coast of America in 1620.
4. Etymology: from Old French peligrin, pelerin, from Latin peregrinus, "foreigner, from foreign parts"; from per- "beyond" + agre, Old Latin ablative case of ager, "field" and peregri, "abroad, from abroad"; locative case of ager, "field, country, foreigner, stranger".
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