pilgrimage

1. 1.

   a journey to a sacred place

   Synonymspilgrim's journey

   Broaderjourney

   Narrowerhajj

Other forms of pilgrimage

plural

pilgrimages·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pilgrimage

What does pilgrimage mean?

pilgrimage means "a journey to a sacred place".

How many syllables are in pilgrimage?

pilgrimage has 3 syllables: pil-gri-mage. The stress falls on "pil". In IPA it is /ˈpɪlɡɹəmədʒ/.

What is another word for pilgrimage?

Close synonyms include pilgrim's journey. 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 pilgrimage a common word?

pilgrimage is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.