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PILGRIM FATHER
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• PILGRIM FATHER (noun)
The noun PILGRIM FATHER has 1 sense:
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
Familiarity information: PILGRIM FATHER used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Pilgrim; Pilgrim Father
Hypernyms ("Pilgrim Father" is a kind of...):
colonist; settler (a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country)
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