Pilgrim Father
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- noun
- /ˈpɪlɡrɪm ˈfɑːðər/
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Padre Peregrino
Examples
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The Pilgrim Fathers loved their beer.
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Further north, the the people that were essentially met with the Pilgrim Fathers were the Iroquois Nation.
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The migration of the Pilgrim Fathers was in part a response to religious and economic imperatives.
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The descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers should not find it hard to understand and sympathize with it.
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Plus, conditions in England were pretty poor for most people and far from a perfect utopia when Sir Francis Drake and later the Pilgrim Fathers left for the New World—that was what we now call the American continents too.
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The Pilgrim Fathers sailed on the Mayflower, seeking a new life in America.
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In 1620, the Pilgrim Fathers established the Plymouth Colony, which became one of the first settlements in New England.
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Many Americans celebrate Thanksgiving to honor the contributions of the Pilgrim Fathers to early American history.
Synonyms
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An English settler who sailed on the Mayflower to start Plymouth Colony in 1620
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A man who starts an important organization or country
Surface Forms
Morphology
The composition is partly transparent: 'Pilgrim' identifies the historical settlers and 'father' can be interpreted as a founder or important ancestor, so a learner who knows both words can infer this refers to an important member of the Pilgrims. However, full understanding depends on cultural/historical knowledge about the Mayflower/Plymouth context and the conventionalized phrase 'Pilgrim Fathers', so the relation is not completely predictable from the words alone.
Etymology
Pilgrim Fathers comes from pilgrim, meaning a person on a religious trip, and father, a respectful name for a group's founders. The name points to the English settlers who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 and helped start the Plymouth colony, so it means 'one of the English settlers who sailed to America on the Mayflower in 1620'.