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pilgrimage
[ pil-gruh-mij ]
noun
- a journey, especially a long one, made to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion:
a pilgrimage to Lourdes.
- Islam.
- the Pilgrimage, hajj.
- any long journey, especially one undertaken as a quest or for a votive purpose, as to pay homage:
a pilgrimage to the grave of Shakespeare.
Synonyms: ,
verb (used without object)
- to make a pilgrimage.
pilgrimage
/ ˈ±èɪ±ôÉ¡°ùɪ³¾Éª»åÏô /
noun
- a journey to a shrine or other sacred place
- a journey or long search made for exalted or sentimental reasons
verb
- intr to make a pilgrimage
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of pilgrimage1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Another of his wife's cousins, a well-respected businessman who had performed the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, also died.
He changed his mind after a “spiritual pilgrimage,†as he put it, to the theater in Petaluma where Bradley Nowell played his final gig.
Believers by the thousands used to come to the Altadena shrine on pilgrimages, and water was brought from Lourdes to replenish its pool.
For relatives of the missing, the barren site outside Teuchitlán has become a pilgrimage site, a place to pay respects to those lost.
A new venue will have be found for the annual pilgrimage, but Justin admitted it will be hard to replace the "special and unique" Oakwood setting.
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