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

Shrine guards flick sticks with ostrich feathers at female pilgrims lingering too long in the shade to try to keep the flow of people moving. — Jane Arraf, NPR, 10 Aug. 2026

The people who joined were not there at the behest of a political organization but were drawn, like pilgrims to hip pilgrimage sites, by the promise of an insurrectionary pleasure. — Asim Ali, Time, 1 Aug. 2026

Every year, millions of pilgrims walk from the deserts of southern Iraq to the holy city of Karbala for Arbaeen, one of the largest annual pilgrimages in the world. — Iqbal Akhtar, The Conversation, 31 July 2026

This time, the diva is face down in her pool, and the pilgrim is in skimpy lingerie. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2026