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

Amplifying Saudi public and official anger is the fact that the majority of those killed Saturday were Muslim pilgrims on their way to Mecca. — Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2026

And at least one online platform built for Jewish and Christian visitors to Israel uses AI to generate custom itineraries for potential pilgrims. — Shay Rabineau, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026

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 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