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Explore vs Pilgrimage - What's the difference?

explore | pilgrimage |

As verbs the difference between explore and pilgrimage

is that explore is while pilgrimage is to go on a pilgrimage.

As a noun pilgrimage is

a journey made to a sacred place, or a religious journey.

explore

English

Verb

(explor)
  • (obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.
  • To examine or investigate something systematically.
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  • To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
  • (medicine) To examine diagnostically.
  • To (seek) experience first hand.
  • To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.
  • To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
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  • They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored' wherever they were permitted to ' explore , paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

    Synonyms

    * (examine or investigate systematically) delve into, research

    Derived terms

    * explorer

    pilgrimage

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A journey made to a sacred place, or a religious journey.
  • In the Muslim faith, the pilgrimage to Mecca is known as the Hajj.
  • (by extension) A visit to any site revered or associated with a meaningful event.
  • Each year we made a pilgrimage to New York City to visit the pub where we all first met.

    Verb

    (pilgrimag)
  • To go on a pilgrimage.