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verb

Definition of pilgrimagenext
as in to travel
to take a trip especially of some distance tourists pilgrimaging to all of the traditional destinations across Europe

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noun

as in journey

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Recent Examples of pilgrimage
Verb
Nearly 100,000 visitors pilgrimage to the area annually to witness a forest canopy cloaked in orange-and-black wings. — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026 Several hundred of them pilgrimage to Arizona each February for the I Heart Pluto Festival. — David Allan, CNN Money, 3 Mar. 2026
Noun
The crowd—mostly tourists who booked their reservation before their flight, Mexican elite, and industry folks on a food pilgrimage—speaks a near-equal mix of English and Spanish. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Oct. 2026 The historian says that these libraries were born out of Chinguetti’s role as a caravan and pilgrimage hub on trans-Saharan routes, en route to Timbuktu in Mali or to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. — Kang-Chun Cheng, Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pilgrimage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pilgrimage
  1. travel
  2. journey
  3. trek
  4. trip
  5. tour
  6. quest
  7. voyage
  8. odyssey
Verb
  • Adjacent to the luggage chaos sat Megan Hall, a mom of six young boys who was traveling to Wisconsin with her family.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 14 Nov. 2026
  • Jackson County Executive Phil LeVota wants to travel to Mexico for several days next month, but there’s one problem.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 14 Nov. 2026
Definition of travel
Noun
  • The store's co-owner, Mallory McClaire, shared details of the long journey to reopening.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Her search for her father becomes a journey into identity, belonging and the lives of people left out of official historical accounts.
    — Lin Ying-Hsuan, Variety, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of journey
Verb
  • Noah Kahan will trek across the great divide and around the world next year.
    — Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2026
  • A week at a Caribbean resort, a safari in East Africa and a month trekking in Nepal carry very different risks.
    — Andrés Henao, The Conversation, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of trek
Noun
  • Buoy Haus guests can also eat at the Westin’s restaurants, with Shorebird—which does daily buffet breakfast and Sunday brunch—being the one most worth the trip over.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Nov. 2026
  • After the long trip on the other side of the country, the Heat returns to Miami for a season-long five-game homestand.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of trip
Verb
  • Warning of a disaster that then came Three years ago, Guterres toured the highest peaks of Nepal, warning of a future with swollen glacier-fed lakes bursting and devastating floods and landslides.
    — Seth Borenstein, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026
  • The Happy Devil is still around, but Labat tours solo these days, in and around a day job and coaching youth soccer.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of tour
Noun
  • Here’s more on the different paths taken by Bass and Raman in their quests to become mayor of Los Angeles.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The father takes his two sons—Ivan and Andrey—on a camping trip that becomes something of a Biblical quest, a test of will and belief.
    — Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of quest
Verb
  • Ethnographic accounts from native elders describe how during unique warm-water events in late summer, people voyaged out at night into the fjords, aided by natural bioluminescent plankton.
    — Torben Rick, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026
  • However, when her island's resources are threatened, Moana embraces her ancestors' voyaging heritage and heads out to sea to find Maui, deliver the heart of Te Fiti (which Maui stole back in the day) and save her people.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 July 2026
Definition of voyage
Noun
  • Karl Bushby was taking the final steps Monday of his 28-year odyssey to walk around the world and return to his mother's home in Northern England.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
  • For 28 years and one day, Karl Bushby took the long way home on an epic odyssey of human endurance back to northern England.
    — Ramy Inocencio, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of odyssey

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