Synonyms of pilgrim

pilgrim

noun

as in traveler

a person who travels to foreign lands

A wandering pilgrim, he made his way across Europe before eventually settling in Madrid.

Related Words

• traveler
• visitor
• tourist
• wayfarer
• journeyer
• vacationer
• immigrant
• holidaymaker
• vacationist
• refugee
• guest
• excursionist
• sightseer
• pioneer
• snowbird
• tripper
• transient
• expatriate
• foreigner
• exile
• alien
• hosteler
• holidayer
• émigré
• migrant
• migrator
• evacuee
• colonist
• deportee
• rubberneck
• newcomer
• sunseeker
• trekker
• defector
• squatter
• relocatee
• noncitizen
• rubbernecker
• settler
• repatriate
• in-migrant
• incomer
• nonnative
• out-migrant

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pilgrim

The Virgin acts as both midwife and priest, sheltering the pregnant pilgrim from the storm and washing away her sins so that she, too, can be delivered. — Ellen O’Connell Whittet, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026

The reporters would ask questions about the latest intrigue, while the pilgrims would ask for prayers and blessings. — Scott Detrow, NPR, 3 Oct. 2026

The pilgrims were going to a prayer site in Nakuru County, west of the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, said Martin Kivuva, archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Mombasa. — ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026

The site near the Spanish border draws millions of pilgrims each year, especially sick and disabled believers hoping for a cure from the famed spring water in the Lourdes grotto where the visions purportedly occurred. — Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026