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pil·grim (pil′grəm)

noun

  1. a person who travels about; wanderer
  2. a person who travels to a shrine or holy place as a religious act
  3. ☆ any member of the band of English Puritans who founded Plymouth Colony in 1620

Etymology: ME pelegrim < OFr pelegrin < LL(Ec) pelegrinus < L peregrinus, foreigner < peregre, from abroad < per, through + ager, field, country: see acre

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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