someone who journeys in foreign lands some one who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620
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
Remember, only in the USA do we have pilgrims with a capital "P" referring specifically to the Puritans from Scrooby who arrived in Plymouth in 1620 Everywhere else, it is a general term for someone who travels to a holy site, usually in a foreign land Pilgrim and Puritan are not in any way synonyms, but it may seem that way if you were schooled in the USA
Pilgrims are people who make a journey to a holy place for a religious reason. a religious person who travels a long way to a holy place (peligrin, from peregrinus )
[ 'pil-gr&m ] (noun.) 13th century. Middle English, from Old French peligrin, from Late Latin pelegrinus, alteration of Latin peregrinus foreigner, from peregrinus, adjective, foreign, from peregri abroad, from per through + agr-, ager land; more at FOR, ACRE.