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

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of pilgrim

The relic trade was big business at the time; relics were bought and sold, and pilgrims often paid a fee to visit them. —Eric Vanden Eykel, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2024

Dedicated to Murugan, the Hindu god of war, the temple has drawn Tamil pilgrims to celebrate Thaipusam, a Hindu festival held during the full moon of the Tamil month of Thai in January or February, there annually since 1892. —Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2024

According to government officials, 141,000 of these unauthorized pilgrims were treated for heatstroke. —Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 25 June 2024

In Saudi Arabia, where nearly 2 million Muslim pilgrims are finishing the haj in Mecca this week, hundreds have died during the journey amid temperatures 120 degrees. —John Bacon, USA TODAY, 21 June 2024