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PEREGRINATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peregrination mean? 

PEREGRINATION (noun)
  The noun PEREGRINATION has 1 sense:

1. traveling or wandering aroundplay

  Familiarity information: PEREGRINATION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PEREGRINATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Traveling or wandering around

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("peregrination" is a kind of...):

travel; traveling; travelling (the act of going from one place to another)

Derivation:

peregrinate (travel around, through, or over, especially on foot)


 Context examples 


Under the impression, said Mr. Micawber, that your peregrinations in this metropolis have not as yet been extensive, and that you might have some difficulty in penetrating the arcana of the Modern Babylon in the direction of the City Road,—in short, said Mr. Micawber, in another burst of confidence, that you might lose yourself—I shall be happy to call this evening, and install you in the knowledge of the nearest way.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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