Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A traveling from one country or place to another; a roaming or wandering about in general; travel; pilgrimage.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A traveling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries.
WordNet 3.0
- n. traveling or wandering around
Examples
“A half-shadow, the edge of a shadow. peregrination”
“How much do we wish this day would be a peregrination of results, not of fear!”
“About 1500 UFW members and supporters were on hand to hear United Farm Workers president Arturo Rodriguez, looking a little drawn from yet another peregrination, and state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg discuss the unsuccessful struggle for card check legislation, and the successful bid for compromise legislation to aid the union with recalcitrant growers.”
The Huffington Post: William Bradley: The Farm Workers and Jerry Brown Make Up, For Now
“Just as his version of the sonata told a more coherent story than Watts's, Kissin evoked the death knell, booming drums and roaring cannon of a funeral tribute to Hungarian patriots in "Funerailles" and the restless peregrination of Senancour's hero in the "Vallee d'Obermann.”
The Washington Post: Pianists Andre Watts and Evgeny Kissin offer Liszt recitals
“Eighteenth century historians conjectured that this might have been the legendary Chicomostoc, through which the Mexica passed on their peregrination from Aztlán to found Tenochtitlan.”
South from Zacatecas: La Quemada archaeological site and Jerez, an undiscovered colonial gem
“That story would have held more fascination than Scully's peregrination through North America and his odious misogyny.”
“FORMAT/INFO: “The Dakota Cipher” stands at 368 pages divided over forty-four numbered chapters and includes a map of Gage's peregrination in the Great Lakes/Mississippi Basin area at the beginning and a historical note at the end of the book.”
“Gypsy, the foundling beagle, was present, but because of her potential to go on a major peregrination was confined to a large dog-proof pen.”
“Twenty years later, a Scots artist named David Roberts visited Petra on a peregrination through the Middle East, and published an album of poetic views of ancient ruins that became the pattern-book of Orientalist imagery.”
“Wedged between an uncertain spring and an inevitable autumn, summer is a season of promise and pleasure and peregrination.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘peregrination’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4084 more...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 414 more...
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Amos.Oz's list
"I am very concerned with the state of words. Words keep me up at night."
~Stacy Piestarantism, lucubration, psychopomp, wlatsome, logolept, hypnogogic, aphenphosmphobia, ataraxia, huggles, lucubration, sennight, plumicorn and 10 more...
johnmperry a pilgrimage Jun 20, 2008
jrome He started to become more aware of the peregrinations he had to make while trying to reach a destination. "I finally understood just how much roads actually wind," he says. He learned to deal with the stares he got in the library, his belt humming like a distant chain saw. Deep into the experiment, Wächter says, "I suddenly realized that my perception had shifted. I had some kind of internal map of the city in my head. I could always find my way home. Eventually, I felt I couldn't get lost, even in a completely new place."
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/esp_pr.html Apr 11, 2007