from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A journey to a sacred place or shrine.
- n. A long journey or search, especially one of exalted purpose or moral significance.
- intransitive v. To go on a pilgrimage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A journey made to a sacred place, or a religious journey.
- n. A visit to any site revered or associated with a meaningful event.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life.
- n. A tedious and wearisome time.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To go as a pilgrim.
- n. A journey undertaken by a pilgrim; a traveling on through a strange country or to some place deemed sacred in order to perform some religious vow or duty, or obtain some spiritual or miraculous benefit.
- n. Figuratively, the journey of life; the time spent in passing through the world to the “better land.”
- n. The time occupied by a pilgrimage; hence, a lifetime.
- n. Synonyms Voyage, Tour, etc. See journey.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a journey to a sacred place
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Neither is the term pilgrimage characteristic of the journey, which has the sketchiness and levity of a flying tour rather than the observant gravity of a patient pilgrimage.
This pilgrimage is to make reparation for the sins of our nation.
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In his Florentine Codex, he gives us the earliest account of the Mexica or Mexiti and their pilgrimage from the desert lands in the north to the eventual founding of Mexico-Tenochtitlan.