Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pilgrim \Pil"grim\, a.
   Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making
   pilgrimages. ``With pilgrim steps.'' --Milton.

   {Pilgrim fathers}, a name popularly given to the one hundred
      and two English colonists who landed from the Mayflower
      and made the first settlement in New England at Plymouth
      in 1620. They were separatists from the Church of England,
      and most of them had sojourned in Holland.

Pilgrim \Pil"grim\, v. i.
   To journey; to wander; to ramble. [R.] --Grew. Carlyle.

Pilgrim \Pil"grim\, n. [OE. pilgrim, pelgrim, pilegrim,
   pelegrim; cf. D. pelgrim, OHG. piligr[=i]m, G. pilger, F.
   p[`e]lerin, It. pellegrino; all fr. L. peregrinus a
   foreigner, fr. pereger abroad; per through + ager land,
   field. See {Per-}, and {Acre}, and cf. {Pelerine},
   {Peregrine}.]
   1. A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.

            Strangers and pilgrims on the earth.  --Heb. xi. 13.

   2. One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some
      holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to
      Loretto; Canterbury pilgrims. See {Palmer}. --P. Plowman.

Source : WordNet®

pilgrim
     n 1: someone who journeys in foreign lands
     2: one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on
        the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New
        England in 1620 [syn: {Pilgrim Father}]
     3: some one who journeys to a sacred place as an act of
        religious devotion