pilgrimage

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English pilgrimage. By surface analysis, pilgrim +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpɪlɡɹɪmɪd͡ʒ/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Hyphenation: pil‧gri‧mage

Noun

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pilgrimage (plural pilgrimages)

  1. A journey made to a sacred place, or a religious journey.
    In the Muslim faith, the pilgrimage to Mecca is known as the Hajj.
  2. (by extension) A visit to any site revered or associated with a meaningful event.
    Each year we made a pilgrimage to New York City to visit the pub where we all first met.
    • 2023 August 5, Ben Sisario, “How Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Conquered the World”, in New York Times[1]:
      For fans, the shows are a pilgrimage, and a rediscovery of the joys of mass gatherings.
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Translations

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Verb

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pilgrimage (third-person singular simple present pilgrimages, present participle pilgrimaging, simple past and past participle pilgrimaged)

  1. To go on a pilgrimage.
    • 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 78:
      in descent, as now, he always had a holy sense of having pilgerimaged, of returning having seen behind a veil.
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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old French peligrinage, pelrimage, variants of pelerinage (pilgrimage); equivalent to pilegrim +‎ -age.

Noun

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pilgrimage (plural pilgrimages)

  1. pilgrimage
    • late 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 12-14.
      Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
      And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
      To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
      Then folk do long to go on pilgrimage,
      And palmers to go seeking out strange strands,
      To distant shrines well known in distant lands.

Descendants

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