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pilgrim
(mass) | pilgrim
- pútnik |
pilgrim
(encz) | pilgrim,poutník n: Zdeněk Brož |
Pilgrim
(gcide) | Pilgrim \Pil"grim\, a.
Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making
pilgrimages. "With pilgrim steps." --Milton.
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Pilgrim fathers, a name popularly given to the one hundred
and two English colonists who landed from the Mayflower
and made the first settlement in New England at Plymouth
in 1620. They were separatists from the Church of England,
and most of them had sojourned in Holland.
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Pilgrim
(gcide) | Pilgrim \Pil"grim\, n. [OE. pilgrim, pelgrim, pilegrim,
pelegrim; cf. D. pelgrim, OHG. piligr[imac]m, G. pilger, F.
p[`e]lerin, It. pellegrino; all fr. L. peregrinus a
foreigner, fr. pereger abroad; per through + ager land,
field. See Per-, and Acre, and cf. Pelerine,
Peregrine.]
1. A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.
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Strangers and pilgrims on the earth. --Heb. xi. 13.
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2. One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some
holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to
Loretto; Canterbury pilgrims. See Palmer. --P. Plowman.
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Pilgrim
(gcide) | Pilgrim \Pil"grim\, v. i.
To journey; to wander; to ramble. [R.] --Grew. Carlyle.
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pilgrim
(wn) | pilgrim
n 1: someone who journeys in foreign lands
2: one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on
the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New
England in 1620 [syn: Pilgrim, Pilgrim Father]
3: someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious
devotion |
pilgrim
(devil) | PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was
one who, leaving Europe in 1620 because not permitted to sing psalms
through his nose, followed it to Massachusetts, where he could
personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.
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pilgrimage
(mass) | pilgrimage
- putovanie, putovať |
pilgrim fathers
(encz) | Pilgrim Fathers,puritáni, kteří roku 1620 odpluli na lodi Mayflower z
Anglie do Ameriky [jmén.] Petr Prášek |
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