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US
/ˈpɪɫɡɹəm, ˈpɪɫɡɹɪm/
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[ UK /pˈɪlɡɹɪm/ ]
[ UK /pˈɪlɡɹɪm/ ]
NOUN
- one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620
How To Use Pilgrim In A Sentence
- This was just a few years after Lord Byron woke to find Child Harold's Pilgrimage in the bookshops and himself famous, as it were, overnight.
- Photographs of Ayesha were appearing in all the papers, and the pilgrims even passed advertising hoardings on which the lepidopteral beauty had been painted three times as large as life, beside slogans reading _Our cloths also are as delicate as a butterfly's wing_, or suchlike. The Satanic Verses
- The father then undertakes his own pilgrimage along the same route. Times, Sunday Times
- Names will be taken from those who intend travelling on next year's pilgrimage to Lourdes.
- And at last he had returned, not in triumph as a master, but as a pilgrim on sabbatical seeking the holy city of his youth. THE BROKEN GOD
- Each group maintained a dignified silence as the marchers passed on their pilgrimage to uphold Republican martyrology.
- It dawned today dankly raining, but by mid morning and my coffee pilgrimage there was sunlight, intermittently, and a warming breeze from the south.
- It is certain that Byron had begun the fourth canto, and written some thirty or more stanzas, before Hobhouse rejoined him at his villa of La Mira on the banks of the Brenta, in July, 1817; and it would seem that, although he had begun by saying "that he was too short a time in Rome for it," he speedily overcame his misgivings, and accomplished, as he believed, the last "fytte" of his pilgrimage. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
- The image isn't falsely romanticized, and it includes foreign tourists alongside Indian pilgrims.
- ‘In this pilgrimage-based show, we feature old and historic temples, churches, gurdwaras and masjids,’ he says.