pilgrim

A religious devotee who journeys to a shrine or sacred place.

A person who travels, especially to foreign lands or to a place of great personal importance.

One of the English Separatists who founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620.

To journey or travel as a pilgrim; undertake or accomplish a pilgrimage.

A traveler; specifically, one who journeys to some place esteemed sacred, either as a penance, or in order to discharge some vow or religious obligation, or to obtain some spiritual or miraculous benefit; hence, a wanderer; a sojourner in a foreign land.

In American history, specifically, one of the English separatists who sailed from Delfthaven (in the Netherlands) in the “Mayflower,” touching at Southampton, England, and founded the colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts, at the end of 1620.

A new-comer, whether a person or an animal; a “tenderfoot.”

A curtain or screen of silk hanging from the back of a woman’s bonnet to protect the neck, worn in the latter part of the eighteenth century.

In modern times, a carved pearl shell such as are brought by travelers from the Holy Land.

In heraldry, same as bourdon.