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   pilgrim

   /ˈpɪlɡrɪm/

   noun

   • 1. a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.
   • ▪ a person travelling to a place of particular personal interest: "thousands of pilgrims converged in Memphis for the 16th anniversary of Presley's death"
   • ▪ a person regarded as journeying through life: literary "we should recognize our status as mere pilgrims in this world"
   • 2. a member of the Pilgrim Fathers.

   verb

   • 1. travel or wander like a pilgrim: archaic "he pilgrimed to his old sporting places"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Provençal pelegrin, from Latin peregrinus ‘foreign’ (see peregrine).

   Scrabble Points: 12

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