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   pil·grim

   /ˈpilɡrəm/

   noun

   • 1. a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.
   • ▪ a member of a group of English Puritans fleeing religious persecution who sailed in the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620.
   • ▪ a person who travels on long journeys.
   • ▪ a person regarded as journeying through life.

   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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