peregrinate
to travel or journey, especially to walk on foot.
Origin of peregrinate
1Other words from peregrinate
- per·e·gri·na·tor, noun
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How to use peregrinate in a sentence
And as for the third of this little party, Miss Parcher's visitor, those peregrinating legs suggested nothing familiar to her.
Seventeen | Booth TarkingtonWho can fancy or feel so much as the shadow of a demur, when peregrinating Rome, that we might be losing our toil?
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II (2 vols) | Thomas De QuinceyA new straw hat was peregrinating along the fence near the two boys.
Penrod | Booth TarkingtonIt was a motor-cycle, and attached to it was one of those peregrinating bath-tubs known as a side car.
Good References | E. J. RathPresently he was conscious of a footstep, so faint, so subtle, that it might have come from a peregrinating ghost.
Tales of Trail and Town | Bret Harte
British Dictionary definitions for peregrinate
/ (ˈpɛrɪɡrɪˌneɪt) /
(intr) to travel or wander about from place to place; voyage
(tr) to travel through (a place)
an obsolete word for foreign
Origin of peregrinate
1Derived forms of peregrinate
- peregrinator, noun
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