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English → English (gcide) Definition: Pilgrim fathers Pilgrim \Pil"grim\, a. Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages. “With pilgrim steps.” --Milton. [1913 Webster] Pilgrim fathers, a name popularly given to the one hundred and two English colonists who landed from the Mayflower and made the first settlement in New England at Plymouth in 1620. They were separatists from the Church of England, and most of them had sojourned in Holland. [1913 Webster]