peregrinate

[ per-i-gruh-neyt ]
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verb (used without object),per·e·gri·nat·ed, per·e·gri·nat·ing.
  1. to travel or journey, especially to walk on foot.

verb (used with object),per·e·gri·nat·ed, per·e·gri·nat·ing.
  1. to travel or walk over; traverse.

Origin of peregrinate

1
First recorded in 1585–95; from Latin peregrīnātus, past participle of peregrīnārī “to travel abroad”; see peregrine, -ate1

Other 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 Tarkington
  • Who can fancy or feel so much as the shadow of a demur, when peregrinating Rome, that we might be losing our toil?

  • A new straw hat was peregrinating along the fence near the two boys.

    Penrod | Booth Tarkington
  • It was a motor-cycle, and attached to it was one of those peregrinating bath-tubs known as a side car.

    Good References | E. J. Rath
  • Presently he was conscious of a footstep, so faint, so subtle, that it might have come from a peregrinating ghost.

British Dictionary definitions for peregrinate

peregrinate

/ (ˈpɛrɪɡrɪˌneɪt) /


verb
  1. (intr) to travel or wander about from place to place; voyage

  2. (tr) to travel through (a place)

adjective
  1. an obsolete word for foreign

Origin of peregrinate

1
C16: from Latin, from peregrīnārī to travel; see peregrine

Derived forms of peregrinate

  • peregrinator, noun

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