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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A pilgrim is ____
A
a person who cooks a thanksgiving meal
B
a person who journeys for religious reasons
C
a person who builds a colony
D
a person who settles in a new land
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Pilgrims are people who make a journey to a holy place for a religious reason. Synonyms: traveller, crusader, wanderer, devotee More Synonyms of pilgrim. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

Detailed explanation-2: -A pilgrim is a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons. For example, “The basilica reared over his tomb at Rome is still visited by pilgrims.".

Detailed explanation-3: -pil·grim ˈpil-grəm. : one who journeys in foreign lands : traveler. : a person who travels to a shrine or holy place to worship. 3. capitalized : one of the English colonists who founded the first permanent settlement in New England at Plymouth in 1620.

Detailed explanation-4: -pilgrimage, a journey undertaken for a religious motive. Although some pilgrims have wandered continuously with no fixed destination, pilgrims more commonly seek a specific place that has been sanctified by association with a divinity or other holy personage.

Detailed explanation-5: -A person who makes such a journey is called a pilgrim. As a common human experience, pilgrimage has been proposed as a Jungian archetype by Wallace Clift and Jean Dalby Clift. Some research has shown that people who engage in pilgrimage walks have biological, psychological, social, and spiritual therapeutic benefits.

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