Pilgrim

  • 21pilgrim — pil|grim [ pılgrım ] noun count 1. ) someone who travels to a holy place that is important in their religion a ) someone who visits a place because it is connected with someone or something that is important to them 2. ) Pilgrim one of the people …

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  • 22Pilgrim — n. & v. n. 1 a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons. 2 a person regarded as journeying through life etc. 3 a traveller. v.intr. (pilgrimed, pilgriming) wander like a pilgrim. Phrases and idioms: Pilgrim Fathers English… …

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  • 23pilgrim — n. & v. n. 1 a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons. 2 a person regarded as journeying through life etc. 3 a traveller. v.intr. (pilgrimed, pilgriming) wander like a pilgrim. Phrases and idioms: Pilgrim Fathers English… …

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  • 24pilgrim — pil|grim [ˈpılgrım] n [Date: 1100 1200; : Old French; Origin: peligrin, from Latin peregrinus foreigner ] a religious person who travels a long way to a holy place ▪ pilgrims visiting a holy shrine …

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  • 25pilgrim — [12] Etymologically, a pilgrim is someone who goes on a journey. The word comes via Provençal pelegrin from Latin peregrīnus ‘foreign’. This was a derivative of pereger ‘on a journey, abroad’, a compound formed from per ‘through’ and ager… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 26pilgrim — noun a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons. verb (pilgrims, pilgriming, pilgrimed) archaic travel or wander like a pilgrim. Origin ME: from Provençal pelegrin, from L. peregrinus (see peregrine) …

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  • 27pilgrim — [ˈpɪlgrɪm] noun [C] 1) someone who travels to a holy place that is important in their religion 2) Pilgrim one of the people who left England and went to live in what is now the US in the early 17th century …

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  • 28pilgrim — /ˈpɪlgrəm / (say pilgruhm) noun 1. someone who journeys, especially a long distance, as an act of religious devotion. 2. Poetic a traveller or wanderer. {Middle English pelegrim, from Anglo French (unrecorded), from Medieval Latin peregrīnus… …

  • 29pilgrim — [12] Etymologically, a pilgrim is someone who goes on a journey. The word comes via Provençal pelegrin from Latin peregrīnus ‘foreign’. This was a derivative of pereger ‘on a journey, abroad’, a compound formed from per ‘through’ and ager… …

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  • 30Pilgrim II. von Puchheim — Pilgrim von Puchheim (* um 1330; † 5. April 1396 in Salzburg) war als Pilgrim II. Salzburger Erzbischof sowie Stiftspropst von Berchtesgaden. Unter seiner Führung erlangte das Land Salzburg seine größte Ausdehnung. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Pilgrims… …

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