pilgrimage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A journey made to a sacred place, or a religious journey.

   In the Muslim faith, the pilgrimage to Mecca is known as the Hajj.

2. 2
   noun

   A visit to any site revered or associated with a meaningful event.

   Each year we made a pilgrimage to New York City to visit the pub where we all first met.

3. 3
   verb

   To go on a pilgrimage.

   In descent, as now, he always had a holy sense of having pilgerimaged, of returning having seen behind a veil.

4. 4
   noun

   a journey to a sacred place

From Middle English pilgrimage. By surface analysis, pilgrim + -age.

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