Thesaurus results for PILGRIM

pilgrim

noun

Definition of pilgrim

as in traveler

a person who travels to foreign lands A wandering pilgrim, he made his way across Europe before eventually settling in Madrid.

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Recent Examples of pilgrim Scientists are still piecing together information from satellite and ground-level data to figure out exactly what happened to cause the flood, which killed hundreds of people and left over a thousand more missing, including foreigners and pilgrims. — CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026 More than 360 people were killed, police said, and more than 1,400 were missing, including scores of foreigners and pilgrims. — Shristi Kafle, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026 More than 390 people were killed, according to authorities in Nepal and China, and more than 1,400 were missing, including hundreds of foreigners and pilgrims. — Niranjan Shrestha, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2026 Many of the missing are Hindu pilgrims, who were journeying to Kailash Mansarovar, a high-altitude site in Tibet revered by Hindus and Buddhists. — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 27 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pilgrim

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Since 2017 individual travelers have also been able to pass through the port.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026
On Wednesday, a massive ice-rock avalanche triggered flash floods in Nepal’s steep Himalayan valleys, killing at least 72 people, sweeping away villages and roads, and leaving hundreds of residents and travelers missing.

— Niranjan Shrestha, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026

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The region is popular for tourism, trekking, and religious pilgrimage to temples and sacred sites revered across multiple faiths – all of which draw large numbers of visitors during summer and early fall.

— Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026
At least one misconfigured site is directing visitors, human or AI, to live malware.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of visitor

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More than 400 foreign nationals are among the 579 tourists missing in the rugged mountainous region, which is popular with pilgrims and trekkers.

— Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2026
Nepal’s tourism ministry reported 403 tourists unaccounted for, including 341 foreign nationals.

— Milad Haghani, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2026

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