pilgrim father

1. 1.

   one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620

   SynonymsPilgrim

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Questions about pilgrim father

What does pilgrim father mean?

pilgrim father means "one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620".

What is another word for pilgrim father?

Close synonyms include Pilgrim. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pilgrim father a common word?

pilgrim father is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.