Pilgrim fathers Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620
Pilgrim; Pilgrim Father.
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- 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.