Synonyms of pilgrims

pilgrims

noun

plural of pilgrim

as in travelers

a person who travels to foreign lands

A wandering pilgrim, he made his way across Europe before eventually settling in Madrid.

Related Words

• travelers
• visitors
• tourists
• wayfarers
• vacationers
• vacationists
• immigrants
• holidaymakers
• journeyers
• refugees
• guests
• sightseers
• excursionists
• holidayers
• pioneers
• foreigners
• expatriates
• snowbirds
• trippers
• evacuees
• exiles
• migrants
• colonists
• aliens
• transients
• deportees
• émigrés
• newcomers
• sunseekers
• repatriates
• trekkers
• hostelers
• rubberneckers
• migrators
• defectors
• settlers
• relocatees
• noncitizens
• squatters
• rubbernecks
• nonnatives
• incomers
• in-migrants
• out-migrants

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pilgrims

And at least one online platform built for Jewish and Christian visitors to Israel uses AI to generate custom itineraries for potential pilgrims. — Shay Rabineau, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026

Mary’s gown billowed in the wind; in fact, the whole illustration showed the storm, from the water breaking against the monastery to the kneeling pilgrims, bundled for warmth, waiting out the downpour on the shore. — Ellen O’Connell Whittet, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026

The reporters would ask questions about the latest intrigue, while the pilgrims would ask for prayers and blessings. — Scott Detrow, NPR, 3 Oct. 2026

The pilgrims were going to a prayer site in Nakuru County, west of the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, said Martin Kivuva, archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Mombasa. — ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026

The site near the Spanish border draws millions of pilgrims each year, especially sick and disabled believers hoping for a cure from the famed spring water in the Lourdes grotto where the visions purportedly occurred. — Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026

In Lourdes, where believers say a famous Catholic shrine gushes with healing waters, streets were crowded with pilgrims waving flags and holding babies aloft as the pope passed in his popemobile. — Chris Livesay, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026