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peregrinate¹

  • /ˈpɛ.ɹɪ.ɡɹəˌneɪt/ US

Where it comes from

From Latin peregrinari (“to live or travel abroad”). See also peregrine and pilgrim.

verb peregrinates · peregrinating · peregrinated

  1. intransitive To travel from place to place, or from one country to another, especially on foot; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries. You know the inveterate peregrinating habits of the club, and can judge, from your own besetting propensity to change your residence monthly, how difficult it might prove to resist the temptation of traversing a soil that is still virgin, so far as the perambulating feet of the members of our frater
  2. transitive To travel through a specific place. 1876, Edward S. Wheeler, Scheyichbi and the Strand http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN1417920904&id=LCyGcTb-Af8C&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=peregrinates&sig=JqFzQzvC5TOwqRCgiL9-NKEoQxI History records no popular tumult, except of tongues, about the matter, but Jesse Hand never fully regained th

peregrinate²

  • /ˈpɛ.ɹɪ.ɡɹəˌneɪt/ US

Where it comes from

From Latin peregrinatus (“having travelled abroad”), past participle of peregrinari.

adjective more peregrinate · most peregrinate

  1. rare Peregrine; having travelled; exotic, foreign. His humour is loftie, his diſcourſe peremptorie: his tongue fyled, his eye ambitious, his gate maieſticall and his general behauiour vaine, rediculous, & thraſonicall. He is too picked, too ſpruce, too affected, to od, as it were, too peregrinat as I may call it.

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verb to travel from place to place

Españolperegrinar
中文游历 yóulì
Italianoperegrinare
Русскийпутеше́ствовать putešéstvovatʹ

adj peregrine; having traveled; foreign, exotic

Françaispérégrin

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@misc{peregrinate_2026,
  title = {peregrinate},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/peregrinate},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}