pilgrim

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   One who travels to visit a site of religious significance.

   strangers and pilgrims on the earth

2. 2
   noun

   A newcomer.

   "I wouldn't unfork that horse yet, pilgrim. I want a good look at ya first."

3. 3
   verb

   To make a pilgrimage

   [T]o all galleries, churches, sistine chapels, ruins, coliseums, and artistic or dilettante shrines he zealously pilgrimed[.]

4. 4
   verb

   To wander; to ramble.

   For that he hath no certain home, or diet, but pilgrims up and down every where, feeding upon all sorts of Plants

5. 5
   noun

   someone who journeys in foreign lands

6. 6
   noun

   someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion

7. 7
   noun

   A silk screen formerly attached to the back of a woman's bonnet to protect the neck.

8. 8
   noun

   A settler of the Plymouth Colony, who left for the New World in the early 17th century.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English pilegrim, from Old English pilegrī̆m, from Old French pelegrin, from Latin peregrīnus (“foreigner”). Doublet of peregrine. The change of /r…r/ to /l…r/ is an effect of dissimilation in early Romance; compare Italian pellegrino.