Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A journey to a sacred place or shrine.
- n. A long journey or search, especially one of exalted purpose or moral significance.
- v. To go on a pilgrimage.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A journey undertaken by a pilgrim; a traveling on through a strange country or to some place deemed sacred in order to perform some religious vow or duty, or obtain some spiritual or miraculous benefit.
- n. Figuratively, the journey of life; the time spent in passing through the world to the “better land.”
- n. The time occupied by a pilgrimage; hence, a lifetime.
- n. Synonyms Voyage, Tour, etc. See journey.
- To go as a pilgrim.
Wiktionary
- n. A journey made to a sacred place, or a religious journey.
- n. by extension A visit to any site revered or associated with a meaningful event.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life.
- n. A tedious and wearisome time.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a journey to a sacred place
Examples
“Neither is the term pilgrimage characteristic of the journey, which has the sketchiness and levity of a flying tour rather than the observant gravity of a patient pilgrimage.”
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 560, August 4, 1832
“This pilgrimage is to make reparation for the sins of our nation.”
“(RNS) Chad Gibbs has been on a pigskin pilgrimage throughout the South, searching for spiritual truth in Tuscaloosa, Baton Rouge, Gainesville and Fayetteville.”
The Huffington Post: Faith And Fanaticism In South's Football God
“(RNS) Chad Gibbs has been on a pigskin pilgrimage throughout the South, searching for spiritual truth in ...”
The Huffington Post: Faith And Fanaticism In South's Football God
“The new activist pilgrimage is post-Katrina New Orleans.”
“One of my favorite activities on the Ocean City, MD boardwalk when we make our annual summer beach pilgrimage is visiting the collection of mirrors that distorts your image.”
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“This year, the 27th year of the pilgrimage, the theme of the pilgrimage is "Thy Kingdom Come" and it takes places from May 30th to June 1st.”
“The pilgrimage is one in which seven people journey to the Time Tombs, another mystery of Hyperion, and petition the Shrike.”
“As always, summer is the time for the L.A. Philharmonic's annual pilgrimage from the beauty and exquisite sound of the WDCH to the ersatz dinner theater and flight-path obstacle we affectionately refer to as the Hollywood Bowl.”
“In his Florentine Codex, he gives us the earliest account of the Mexica or Mexiti and their pilgrimage from the desert lands in the north to the eventual founding of Mexico-Tenochtitlan.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pilgrimage’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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The -ages of Man(-age)
Trivet also has this list, which you should go see. And then I found this list, and this list...
manage, salvage, selvadge, savage, voyage, umbrage, entourage, homage, carriage, marriage, language, potage and 123 more...
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ficciones's list
encyclopedic
imbroglio, splendour, brilliance, labyrinth, vast, precipice, ebb and flow, tidal, crevasse, resonate, redolent, prudent and 55 more...
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-age
condition; result of; account; number of; cost of; place of; collection of; home of; to act
marriage, acreage, postage, steerage, peerage, hermitage, forage, Hermitage, pilgrimage, baggage, blockage, carnage and 24 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Speaking in Tongues - an REM list
Words heard in various REM songs that I enjoy and that I think are indicative of the band. Not too literally, of course.
pilgrimage, pageant, suspicion, penitence, gentlemen, chronic, stigma, deadlier, transit, fortunate, momentum, misconstrued and 162 more...
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Traveling the world!
byzantine, acropolis, pagoda, minaret, rupee, compass, pilgrimage, origami, kami, ashram, arabesque, mediterranean
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He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght
my favourite era
feudal, peasant, vassal, serf, medieval, fief, chivalry, yeoman, joust, primogeniture, wimple, abbey and 56 more...
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sfan
wan, citroen, aramaic, arabic, hebrew, mosque, oran, synagogue, anisette, almighty, blum, cremieux and 55 more...
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Wander
Words related to wander.
peregrinate, vagrate, vagary, pilgrimage, spatiate, expatiate, rove, ramble, gad, pervagate, vague, divagate
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Journeys
Unexpected or not. :)
hadj, jaunt, trip, excursion, tour, trek, voyage, pilgrimage, journey, haj, schlep, junket and 57 more...
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Nick's Words
Words I often can't recall when I need to use them. Plus some interesting words I like.
paranoid, ineffable, syncopated, authenticity, euphemism, profundity, ambiguous, consequential, contingent, apropos, veg-eatables, autoantonym and 56 more...
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collection
murmur, cynosure, damascened, morocco, chrysanthemum, revolutionary, dissection, pilgrimage, mekong, palindrome, rabid, laughing and 4 more...
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wordage
-age words
verbiage, decoupage, coinage, slayage, usage, carnage, damage, courage, savage, beverage, language, blockage and 82 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for pilgrimage.
bilby The kind of verb I'm loatheaging. Jul 11, 2011
biocon Pilgrimage (verb) means "1. to travel; to wander; to stay or dwell in a foreign land; to sojourn; 2. to travel to a sacred place, etc., as an act of devotion; to make a pilgrimage, to go on a pilgrimage (Oxford English Dictionary). Jul 11, 2011