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pilgrim

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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pil·grim /ˈpɪlɡrɪm/ noun [countable]  RRa religious person who travels a long way to a holy place 朝圣者,香客 pilgrims visiting a holy shrine 祭拜圣庙的朝圣者
Examples from the Corpus
pilgrimAll over Ireland, posters advertise pilgrim coach tours to Knock, a town famous for apparitions of the Virgin Mary.Me thinks another pilgrim is trying to make a buck.Thousands of Christian pilgrims converged on Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas Eve.The last pilgrims had gone home, and the small kiosks and stalls were closing.More than a million pilgrims come to Koya-san each year.Jim believed it would survive best as a band of pilgrims.The nomads came early and the pilgrims came late.
Origin pilgrim (1100-1200) Old French peligrin, from Latin peregrinus foreigner
pil·grim nounChineseSyllable
who person holy a religious a travels to long Corpus a way


pilgrim
pilgrim /ˈpɪlɡrəm, ˈpɪlɡrɪm/ noun [countable]
 Date: 1100-1200
 Language: Old French
 Origin: peligrin, from Latin peregrinus 'foreigner'
a religious person who travels a long way to a holy place:
    pilgrims visiting a holy shrine


pil·grimBrE /ˈpɪlɡrɪm/ 🔊NAmE /ˈpɪlɡrɪm/ 🔊 nouna person who travels to a holy place for religious reasons 朝觐者;朝圣的人;香客Muslim pilgrims on their way to Mecca前往麦加的穆斯林朝觐者Christian pilgrims visiting Lourdes赴卢尔德朝圣的基督徒Pilgrim a member of the group of English people (the Pilgrim Fathers) who sailed to America on the ship The Mayflower in 1620 and started a colony in Massachusetts 清教徒前辈移民(1620 年乘五月花号赴美洲,在马萨诸塞建立英国殖民地)