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

In the middle of Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest lake, the islands are a magical landscape where locals and pilgrims connect with ancient spirits at a sacred waterfall. — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026

When pilgrims died on their journey, which was all too common, the Templars kept their estate. — Tribune Content Agency, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2026

For weeks before Arbeen, pilgrims set off on foot for Karbala, some carrying flags with images of Imam Hussein in the searing heat. — Jane Arraf, NPR, 10 Aug. 2026

Pelagius is buried with his wife in a chapel carved into a cliff face, which today is an important site for Catholic pilgrims. — Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 4 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

The two attacks came just days before Medjugorje's annual youth prayer festival, which is expected to draw more than 50,000 pilgrims from around the world. — Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 28 July 2026

While pilgrims ascended the mountain, Mayo supporters descended en masse on Dublin for the final at Croke Park, splashing the county’s colours across the capital. — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 27 July 2026