Meaning

4 senses
  1. One who travels to visit a site of religious significance.

    (literary)Any traveler.

    Pilger, Wallfahrer

    пало́мникpalómnik, пилигри́мpiligrím, стра́нникstránnik

    проча́нинpročányn, пало́мникpalómnyk, пілігри́мpilihrým

  2. (broadly)An early American settler.

  3. (slang)A newcomer.

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

More definitions
  • someone who journeys in foreign lands
  • someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion
  • one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620

Examples

22 sentences
  1. Are you pilgrims?

    deSeid ihr Pilger?

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  2. The pilgrims brought gifts from distant lands.

    ruПаломники принесли дары из дальних стран.

    deDie Pilger brachten Gaben aus fernen Ländern mit.

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  3. I decided to go away with the pilgrims.

    ruЯ решил уйти с паломниками.

    deIch beschloss, mit den Pilgern fortzugehen.

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  4. The villagers gathered to bid goodbye to the pilgrims.

    deDie Dorfbewohner versammelten sich, um sich von den Pilgern zu verabschieden.

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  5. The pilgrims entered the ancient fane to offer their prayers.

    deDie Pilger betraten das alte Heiligtum, um ihre Gebete darzubringen.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
traveler, especially to religious sites:
Русский
By meaning 1
traveler, especially to religious sites:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
traveler, especially to religious sites:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English pilegrim, from Old English pilegrī̆m, from Old French pelegr

Inherited from Middle English pilegrim, from Old English pilegrī̆m, from Old French pelegrin, from Latin peregrīnus (“foreigner”). Doublet of peregrine.

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Forms

plural: pilgrims
Singularpilgrim
Pluralpilgrims

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620:Pilgrim Father

Word family

16 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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