Thesaurus results for PILGRIMAGE

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verb

Definition of pilgrimage

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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Recent Examples of pilgrimage

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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

Here are 11 stays from across the Austen adaptation canon to add to your next literary pilgrimage to the British Isles. — Nicholas Derenzo, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026 The minister presented al-Shahat and his wife with certificates of appreciation, and awarded them a trip to Saudi Arabia to perform the Umrah pilgrimage in recognition of his honesty and responsible conduct for not keeping the discovery to himself. — Ahmed Shawkat, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pilgrimage

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Verb

Brazil’s machine has traveled mostly on loan to countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

— Solly Boussidan, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Most of the nitrogen used in fertilizer travels through the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping channel in the Middle East controlled by Iran.

— Saige Miller, NPR, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of travel

Noun

No young man should have to face something like this, and no family should have to carry the weight of this journey alone.

— Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Oct. 2026
Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared in their Lockheed Electra 10-E while on a journey around the world.

— Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of journey

Verb

Both wear coarse, sheep’s wool djellabas over trekking pants and plaid shirts and have turban-like scarves, known as shesh, piled high on their heads.

— Jen Murphy, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Oct. 2026
From there, Shygirl will trek across Europe and the UK for the rest of the month, then head stateside in April.

— Walden Green, Pitchfork, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of trek

Noun

Yet a growing number of adults age 60 and older are embracing AI, using it for entertainment, planning trips and even accessing health information.

— Robin Brewer, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2026
This month, it was denied access to the plane for a trip to Georgia and Florida.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of trip

Verb

But O’Neal, who is also currently touring college campuses to teach personal finance, sees college as more than a path to a diploma.

— Preston Fore, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
In the afternoon the group toured Sierra College’s mechatronics program, which blends electronics, mechanics and computer control to prepare workers for highly technical equipment, like that used in semiconductor plants.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of tour

Noun

In the last seven years, Bryan’s struggle to become a better person has paralleled his quest to become a good songwriter.

— Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 20 Oct. 2026
The question also has consequences for the quest to unify quantum mechanics with general relativity.

— Philipp Strasberg, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 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

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