peregrination

[ per-i-gruh-ney-shuhn ]

noun

1. travel from one place to another, especially on foot.

   Synonyms: expedition, excursion, trip

2. a course of travel; journey.

   Synonyms: expedition, excursion, trip

Word History and Origins

Origin of peregrination¹

1425–75; late Middle English peregrinacioun (< Middle French peregrinacion ) < Latin peregrīnātiōn- (stem of peregrīnātiō ) a traveling abroad. See peregrinate, -ion

Example Sentences

A jaunt to the Waffle House across the street required a peregrination across a hot ocean of tarmac.

From Los Angeles Times

White’s peregrinations pay off as he gradually discovers a few mid-ranking U.S. diplomats and military officers — a “gang of mutineers,” he calls them — willing to go behind the ambassador’s back and do the right thing.

From Washington Post

This extravagant peregrination of a novel wanders back and forth through three decades of cruelty, violence, corruption, blackmail, debauchery and lust for revenge.

From Washington Post

Finding community and disagreement in a space in which talking to strangers might be more welcome than at, say, my local coffee shop is particularly alluring peregrination.

From Salon

With Bernal's Ivy League pedigree and his peregrinations throughout the Western Hemisphere, his saga also offers disturbing new context to the widespread but little-noticed phenomenon of abusive coaches who globetrot their way out of trouble.

From Salon