What's the difference between journey and pilgrim?

Journey


Definition:

  • (n.) The travel or work of a day.
  • (n.) Travel or passage from one place to another; hence, figuratively, a passage through life.
  • (v. i.) To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance.
  • (v. t.) To traverse; to travel over or through.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
  • (2) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
  • (3) For his lone, perilous journey that defied the US occupation authorities, Burchett was pilloried, not least by his embedded colleagues.
  • (4) The buses recently went up by 50p per journey, but my wages went up with national inflation which was pennies.
  • (5) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
  • (6) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
  • (7) The development of pulmonary edema in high-altitude residents with upper respiratory infections and no antecedent low-altitude journey is consistent with the presence of other factors such as inflammation, which may play a role in the pathogenesis of the edema.
  • (8) "I saw my role, and continue to do so, as doing everything I can to accelerate the Lib Dems' journey from a party of protest to a party of government," he said.
  • (9) An alternative route is the one via Paris, from where the journey continues to Holland or Great Britain.
  • (10) His torturous journey for a safer life has led to no life .
  • (11) He points to the seat where his friend was hit; he says only pride prevents him from lying on the floor for the entire journey.
  • (12) Davies, who worked closely with AHTSYL's producers to ensure an accurate picture, worries that some medical stories are sold solely as "emotional journeys".
  • (13) Greece standoff over €86bn bailout eases after Brussels deal Read more But while the bailout chiefs are poised to agree on a route map, the journey for the Greek people seems no less long and arduous.
  • (14) We wish to thank once again all the Chinese people and people around the world who have supported Beijing 2022 in this extraordinary bid journey.” Earlier, the president Xi threw his weight behind China’s bid, promising the “strongest support” for the Beijing Games in a one-minute video address to the IOC delegates.
  • (15) On Saturday I made my second trip to the campsite in Lower Stumble – my first journey was on 28 July.
  • (16) One of those queueing on Sunday morning was Veerle Schmits, 43, a social services worker from Haringey, north London, who was due to travel to Belgium on Saturday to see her family for a belated new year’s party but was forced to delay her journey.
  • (17) Which certainly isn't a charge you can level at Sony – in recent years, it has conspicuously championed indies (winning a hatful of Baftas for Journey and The Unfinished Swan in the process).
  • (18) Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian A journey that started five years ago with a promise to bring Labour together – to avoid the civil strife that traditionally followed election defeat – risks ending where it began: contemplating electoral wilderness.
  • (19) During their last conversation in April, Gulru told her that Isis had given the family $30,000 for their journey to Aleppo.
  • (20) But the controversy generated by Lindsay Lohan's Indian Journey, documenting the Hollywood actor's investigation into child trafficking was not quite matched by its ratings, with 224,000 viewers on Thursday, 1 April.

Pilgrim


Definition:

  • (n.) A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.
  • (n.) One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to Loretto; Canterbury pilgrims. See Palmer.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages.
  • (v. i.) To journey; to wander; to ramble.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They had watched him celebrate mass with three million pilgrims on the packed-out shores of Copacabana beach .
  • (2) This approximately 40-Myr-old specimen is the first fossil primate found in Burma since the fragmentary remains of the controversial earliest anthropoids Pondaungia cotteri Pilgrim and Amphipithecus mogaungensis Colbert were recovered more than 50 yr ago.
  • (3) There were 18 primary cases amongst pilgrims returning from Mecca and 15 subsequent cases among Muslims over the following 19 months.
  • (4) Pilgrims have been undeterred by the collapse of a construction crane in Mecca earlier this month, which killed more than 100 people and injured at least 200.
  • (5) Video of Mecca pilgrim on 'hoverboard' divides opinion Read more The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, whose country is home to tens of millions of Muslims, said on Twitter: “My thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who lost their lives in the crane crash in Mecca.
  • (6) Pilgrims from all over the world, many weeping and clutching precious mementos or photographs of loved ones, jostle beneath its soaring domes every day.
  • (7) Using Koufonissi as a base, there are daily excursions by caique and ferry to nearby islands, including Iraklia, where walkers can follow a pilgrims' trail across the high lands to spectacular St John's Cave, carved into a limestone cliff.
  • (8) Pilgrims who became group A carriers introduced this clonal group into sub-Saharan Africa on their return from the haj.
  • (9) Cash pilgrims and bricks of money: HSBC Swiss bank operated like cash machine for rich clients Read more Epstein, who reportedly keeps much of his wealth in the US Virgin Islands, where he owns a private island, did not respond to multiple requests for comment about his HSBC Geneva accounts.
  • (10) He's thanking them and telling then that he is going to become "a pilgrim about to start his last journey on Earth" (Thanks to the BBC's translator).
  • (11) In Pilgrim's Progress, Christian's path passes a cave in which two giants once dwelled.
  • (12) And though films like Scott Pilgrim can feel positively regressive in their sexual politics, BTTF is not misogynistic.
  • (13) 1987 31 July: Saudi security forces suppress an unauthorised protest held by Iranian pilgrims.
  • (14) Friends and pilgrims visited and took home with them something of the hillside.
  • (15) Baboun, a former literature scholar, has spent her term redrawing municipal boundaries, dealing with the damage caused to Bethlehem’s business district by the wall dividing the West Bank from Israel, and focusing on providing sufficient accommodation for tourists and pilgrims.
  • (16) The only souls around are a small group of Buddhist pilgrims, lighting incense at the rear of the spectacular Khmer temple.
  • (17) It was not the first tragedy to strike Mecca pilgrims, although the hajj has remained practically incident-free in recent years.
  • (18) Their image of the church is of a pilgrim people on the move.
  • (19) The UK cash pilgrims also included property traders, a diet clinic owner and a toy manufacturer.
  • (20) But there was little mourning among pilgrims, who snapped pictures of the collapsed metal and continued with their prayers and rituals.