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Definition

someone who journeys to a special place — typically a difficult journey to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion

As a proper noun (capitalized), Pilgrim refers specifically to those who founded Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620.

Three pilgrims were killed in the bus crash.

pilgrims = people who journey to a special place — typically as an act of religious devotion

Out on the roads the pilgrims sank down and fell over and died and...
Cormac McCarthy -- The Road

pilgrims = people who journey to a special place — typically as an act of religious devotion

I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrims were best friends during that first Thanksgiving, but a few years later, the Pilgrims were shooting Indians.
Sherman Alexie -- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

pilgrims = The people who founded Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620.

Early in the afternoon we overtook another procession of pilgrims;
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

pilgrims = people on a religious journey

a priest who was coming back with one of the returning streams of pilgrims.
Ernest Hemingway -- The Sun Also Rises

pilgrims = someone on a religious journey

...it starts out with this peasant—the pilgrim—wanting to find out what it means in the Bible when it says you should pray incessantly.
J.D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey

pilgrim = someone on a religious journey

every pilgrim and stranger was welcome,
Hermann Hesse -- Siddhartha

pilgrim = someone who journeys to a special place — typically a difficult journey to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion

Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, From every mountainside, let freedom ring! And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -- I Have a Dream

pilgrim = Europeans who journeyed to and founded Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620

First Mama thought you were Dick Tracy or somebody, the time you spent studying crime the whole way over— now Nonna is asking if you're not a pilgrim!
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
These passionate pilgrims could readily be distinguished; they formed oases of whispers, aloof, self-centered, in the turbulence of the crowd.
Albert Camus -- The Plague
She shook her head, a little drawing of a turkey in a Pilgrim hat in her hand.
Jill McCorkle -- Ferris Beach
_Mithrandir, Mithrandir_ sang the Elves, _O Pilgrim Grey!
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Fellowship of the Ring
Other day, when I ask her, she say, "Pilgrims.
Kathryn Stockett -- The Help
Before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Letter from a Birmingham Jail
The Valley of the Shadow of Death gives few of its pilgrims back to the world.
W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk
Sancho complied, and Ricote having spoken to the other pilgrims they withdrew to the grove they saw, turning a considerable distance out of the road.
Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote
Cardboard turkeys and black Pilgrim hats were taped to the first-floor windows of Gracie's house.
Laurie Halse Anderson -- The Impossible Knife of Memory
On Easter morning he arose in the blue light and went with the other pilgrims to the Moravian cemetery.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
It was these records that brought the Grey Pilgrim to us.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Two Towers
"Pilgrims!" a dozen voices chimed in.
Alexandra Bracken -- The Darkest Minds

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