Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pilgrim

3 senses of pilgrim

Sense 1
pilgrim -- (someone who journeys in foreign lands)
       => wayfarer, journeyer -- (a traveler going on a trip)

Sense 2
Pilgrim, Pilgrim Father -- (one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620)
       => settler, colonist -- (a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country)

Sense 3
pilgrim -- (someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion)
       => believer, worshiper, worshipper -- (a person who has religious faith)