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 of pilgrim in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Half a million people joined along the four pilgrimages to Indianapolis, but most of them join for a segment then return home, with only a core group of several dozen pilgrims making the complete journey to Indianapolis, Glemkowski said. —Alysa Guffey, The Indianapolis Star, 15 July 2024

Europe has no great desert, and as a consequence, its people have become great pilgrims of arid expanses: seekers of heat, space, and light. —Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 11 July 2024

Each group of pilgrims is carrying the Eucharist with them on their journey to Indianapolis. —Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 4 July 2024

The Saudi Arabian authorities said that 1,300 pilgrims have already died on this year’s Hajj. —Mihir Sharma, Twin Cities, 4 July 2024