pilgrimage

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: pil=grim=age

CIDE DICTIONARY

pilgrimage, n. [OE. pilgrimage, pelgrinage; cf. F. pèlerinage.].

•  The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

  "The days of the years of my pilgrimage."  [1913 Webster]
•  A tedious and wearisome time.  [1913 Webster]

  "In prison hast thou spent a pilgrimage."  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Journey; tour; excursion. See Journey.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pilgrimage, n. & v.
--n.
1 a pilgrim's journey (go on a pilgrimage).
2 life viewed as a journey.
3 any journey taken for nostalgic or sentimental reasons.
--v.intr. go on a pilgrimage.

Etymology

ME f. Prov. pilgrinatge (as PILGRIM)

THESAURUS

pilgrimage

adventure, campaign, circuit, course, cruise, crusade, emprise, excursion, expedition, exploration, fare, globe-trot, go abroad, go on safari, go overseas, grand tour, hit the trail, jaunt, journey, junket, make a journey, make a pilgrimage, make a trip, mission, outing, package tour, peregrinate, peregrination, pilgrim, pleasure trip, progress, quest, range the world, round trip, rubberneck, rubberneck tour, run, safari, sally, shoot, sight-see, stalk, take a trip, take the road, tour, trek, trip, turn, voyage, wayfare

ROGET THESAURUS

pilgrimage

Undertaking

N undertaking, compact, adventure, venture, engagement, enterprise, emprise, pilgrimage, matter in hand, move, first move, undertaking, on the anvil, Int, here goes!.

Journey

N journey, travel, traveling, wayfaring, campaigning, journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation, noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulism, outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt, equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege, ride and tie, basophobia, roving, vagrancy, pererration, marching and countermarching, nomadism, vagabondism, vagabondage, hoboism, gadding, flit, flitting, migration, emigration, immigration, demigration, intermigration, wanderlust, plan, itinerary, guide, handbook, guidebook, road book, Baedeker, Bradshaw, Murray, map, road map, transportation guide, subway map, procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column, vehicle, automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter, trolley, locomotive, legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters, traveler, depot, railway station, station, traveling, ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic, circumforanean, circumforaneous, noctivagrant, mundivagrant, locomotive, wayfaring, wayworn, travel-stained, on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare, by the Marrowbone stage: in transitu, en route, Int, come along!.