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

As expected, the Vatican said that for a third week running, the pope would not lead his usual Sunday prayers with pilgrims and that once again the text of the Angelus prayer would be published rather than read out. —Crispian Balmer, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025

Police reported the stampede occurred as hundreds of millions of pilgrims rushed to dip in sacred waters on the most auspicious day of the festival. —Kyra Colah, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2025

Already the center of Jewish culture and power, Jerusalem was full of pilgrims who had come to celebrate the Passover. —Lynne Silva-Breen, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025

The Vatican proceeded with its Jubilee celebrations, the once-every-quarter-century Holy Year that is bringing pilgrims from around the world to Rome. —Landon Mion, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2025