pilgrimage

noun

1. 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.

   Rome, the mighty mother of the Christian faith, whose amphitheatres had been red with the blood of the saints, and where the pilgrimage and the miracle still testified to the truth.

   It was like a weary pilgrimage amongst hints for nightmares.

   Quarians are surgically fitted with their various immunity-boosted implants in preparation for leaving on Pilgrimage.

2. 2

   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.

   The Berghof, too, was largely reduced to ash, sparing it the indignity of the tour guides Hitler so dreaded, and leaving a place of pilgrimage for future generations of Hitler worshippers—exactly how Adolf Hitler would have wanted it.

   For fans, the shows are a pilgrimage, and a rediscovery of the joys of mass gatherings.

   Earlier this year, the resident was granted permission to install a gate to deter them from making what has become a sort of pilgrimage [Carrie Bradshaw's stoop].

verb

1. 1

   To go on a pilgrimage.

   in descent, as now, he always had a holy sense of having pilgerimaged, of returning having seen behind a veil.

Forms

plural

pilgrimages

past tense

pilgrimaged

past participle

pilgrimaged

present participle

pilgrimaging

third person singular

pilgrimages