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to peregrinate

to peregrinate

9.9
To travel around a place, usually on foot
  • verb
  • /ˈpɛrəɡrɪˌneɪt/
  • Formal
translation icon : peregrinar
  • During summer vacation, I love to peregrinate through the national parks and enjoy the beauty of nature.

Examples

  • She plans to peregrinate across Europe by walking from city to city, experiencing the culture along the way.

  • From the first would come warnings against sin, and from the second, warnings against Muslim raiders from islands peregrinating through the sea.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • In whatever temporal framework, the geographical significance of peregrinating plants is intertwined with their patterns of migration and use.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Only twenty-four years old and still years away from establishing his own public persona, he had lived most of his life outside of Norway, following his father's peregrinating footsteps through a self-imposed exile.

    Academic text (1996)

  • By contrast, Crispian individuals are "restful" if putridly subsistent beings, their liberation from conditions bespeaking both their lack of soteriological autonomy and their deliverance from the need to peregrinate along the road to salvation from one stage of potential being to another.

    Academic text (2006)

  • After years of working in one place, he decided to peregrinate and explore different countries on foot.

Synonyms

to hoof it
vsto peregrinate
  • Informal
7 8.8

Walk somewhere instead of going by car or bus

is the neutral or formal term for traveling on foot
to traipse through
vsto peregrinate
  • Informal
3 6.8

To walk slowly through a place without a clear purpose

is more like a planned or purposeful journey rather than casual wandering
to footwalk
vsto peregrinate
7.7

To walk a route to check for obstacles

is broader and means to journey around a place rather than inspect it
to compass
vsto peregrinate
  • Archaic
7.7

To travel all the way around something, for example the world or an island

emphasizes travel on foot rather than complete long voyages by vehicle

Antonyms

to settle
463 2.5

To live in a place, often for a long time

to stay put
  • Informal
133 2.0

Remain in the same place without moving

How Far

to trek
9 3.9
to peregrinate
  • Formal
9.9
to hike
120 2.0
to walk
∞ 1.0
to wander
379 1.3
to stroll
122 1.8

Surface Forms

peregrinate infinitive
peregrinated past
peregrinated past participle
peregrinating present participle
peregrinates third person singular

Morphology

peregrinate = peregrin + ate

Although analyzable as peregrin- + -ate from Latin, the root 'peregrin' is not a recognizable productive English base, so learners cannot reliably derive the meaning from its parts.

Etymology

The word peregrinate comes from the Latin peregrinari, meaning 'to travel abroad', and from peregrinus, meaning 'foreigner'. Think of someone walking into new lands like a foreign traveller; that's why to peregrinate is to journey or wander through a place, often on foot.