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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pilgrim

And the desperate hunt for missing American Austin Tice uncovered another American, a pilgrim named Travis Timmerman, in one of many remarkable developments. —Josh Feldman, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2024

The cross may have arrived with a pilgrim from Europe and fallen during their journey in the Land of Israel, or perhaps it was purchased here in Jerusalem. —Aristos Georgiou, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024

On the first afternoon, new homeless friends and we, the pilgrims, sat together on the grass. —Judy Knotts, Austin American-Statesman, 27 Dec. 2024

Santa Maria Maggiore is one of Rome’s four papal basilicas (along with St. Peter’s, the Lateran, and San Paolo fuori le Mura), and during the Jubilee year their holy doors will remain open so that pilgrims can pass through — a rite associated with remission of sins. —David Laskin, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024