Synonyms of pilgrim

pilgrim

noun

as in traveller

a person who travels to foreign lands

A wandering pilgrim, he made his way across Europe before eventually settling in Madrid.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• traveller
• traveler
• visitor
• tourist
• wayfarer
• journeyer
• vacationer
• hosteller
• holidaymaker
• vacationist
• refugee
• immigrant
• guest
• sightseer
• excursionist
• snowbird
• pioneer
• tripper
• transient
• foreigner
• expatriate
• alien
• hosteler
• holidayer
• émigré
• exile
• migrator
• migrant
• evacuee
• emigré
• colonist
• deportee
• rubberneck
• newcomer
• sunseeker
• trekker
• defector
• squatter
• relocatee
• noncitizen
• rubbernecker
• repatriate
• settler
• in-migrant
• incomer
• nonnative
• out-migrant

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of pilgrim

In the autumn of 1621, the pilgrims of the nascent Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, along with scores of Native Americans, gathered to celebrate a successful harvest with a feast that was to be considered this nation’s first Thanksgiving. —New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 28 Nov. 2024

Instead, the pilgrims became rowdy at their feast and began shooting into the air. —Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2024

Cast as Pocahontas, Wednesday uses the play to enact a terrific revenge on not just the Up with People-esque campers, but the pilgrims themselves. —Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2024

The canyon has long been considered sacred by Native people and, more recently, holy by pilgrims and unique by New Age mystics and psychics who believe in its spiritual powers. —Tasha Zemke, Outside Online, 15 Nov. 2024