pilgrim

From Middle English pilegrim, 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 cognate pellegrino.

pilgrim (plural pilgrims)

1. One who travels, especially on a journey to visit sites of religious significance.
   • Bible, Hebrews xi. 13

     strangers and pilgrims on the earth

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

• pilgrimage

pilgrim (third-person singular simple present pilgrims, present participle pilgriming, simple past and past participle pilgrimed)

1. (intransitive) To journey; to wander; to ramble.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Grew to this entry?)

   • 1851 Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling

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

From Old Norse pílagrímr (“pilgrim”), from Medieval Latin pelegrinus, from Latin peregrīnus (“foreigner, traveler”).

• IPA^(key): /pilɡrɛm/, [ˈpʰilˌɡ̊ʁɛmˀ], [ˈpʰilˌɡ̊ʁɛm] or IPA^(key): /piːlɡrɛm/, [ˈpʰiːlˌɡ̊ʁɛmˀ], [ˈpʰiːlˌɡ̊ʁɛm]

pilgrim c (singular definite pilgrimmen, plural indefinite pilgrimme)

1. pilgrim (traveller, especially to religious sites)

From Old Norse pílagrímr (“pilgrim”), from Medieval Latin pelegrinus, from Latin peregrīnus (“foreigner, traveler”).

pilgrim c

1. pilgrim

• pilgrimsfärd