A settler of the Plymouth Colony. Usually used in plural a person who travels to a shrine or holy place, usually to make offerings and/or to request blessings and favors n A traveler that is taken seriously A Pilgrim Father was one who, leaving Europe in 1620 because not permitted to sing psalms through his nose, followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience – Any member of the band of English Puritans who founded Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 One who travels, especially on a journey to visit sites of religious significance To journey; to wander; to ramble Simple, austere, utilitarian furniture used by America's Pilgrim colonists Remember, only in the USA do we have pilgrims with a capital "P" referring specifically to the Puritans from Scrooby who arrived in Plymouth in 1620 Everywhere else, it is a general term for someone who travels to a holy site, usually in a foreign land Pilgrim and Puritan are not in any way synonyms, but it may seem that way if you were schooled in the USA some one who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion See Palmer Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages someone who journeys in foreign lands some one who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620 A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to Loretto; Canterbury pilgrims someone who journeys in foreign lands one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620 Pilgrims are people who make a journey to a holy place for a religious reason. a religious person who travels a long way to a holy place (peligrin, from peregrinus ) Christian who has traveled to a sacred place; one who makes a journey for religious reasons First settlers of Plymouth (Massachusetts), the first permanent colony in New England (1620). The members of the English Separatist Church, a radical faction of Puritanism, composed a third of the 102 colonists who sailed aboard the Mayflower to North America, and they became the dominant group in the colony. The settlers were later collectively referred to as the Forefathers; the term Pilgrim Fathers was applied to them by Daniel Webster at the bicentennial celebration (1820). See also Mayflower Compact; Plymouth Co The early settlers of the Plymouth Colony who left for the New World in early 17th century. Usually used in plural plural of pilgrim