单词 | pilgrim fathers |
释义 | > as lemmasPilgrim Fathers Pilgrim Fathers n. American History the group of English Puritans who set up the colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620, and are regarded as the founders of the United States (see sense 4a). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [noun] > other specific colonists or settlers pilgrim1630 originals1703 old settler1744 Big Knife1750 out-settler1755 provincial1756 Boer1776 freeman1791 Pilgrim Fathers1799 back-settler1809 undertaker1819 oecist1846 Argonaut1848 Canterbury pilgrim1850 poblador1850 shagroon1851 forty-niner1853 planter1858 inside squatter1881 local white1888 Minyan1928 1799 Columbian Centinel & Massachusetts Federalist 25 Dec. 3 An Ode [by Samuel Davis], in honor of the Fathers, was sung..—Hail Pilgrim Fathers of our race, With grateful hearts your toils we trace. 1853 J. B. Marsden Hist. Early Puritans (ed. 2) 295 The May-flower and the Speedwell..in which the exiles of Leyden, the pilgrim fathers, embarked upon their voyage. 2003 Church Times 31 Oct. 21/4 Joseph was nevertheless a descendant of one of the Pilgrim Fathers from the Mayflower. < as lemmas |
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