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Pilgrim vs Grim - What's the difference?

pilgrim | grim |

As proper nouns the difference between pilgrim and grim

is that pilgrim is a settler of the usually used in plural while grim is , probably derived from old english grimm' or old norse '''grimr''' or ' grimmr .

As a noun pilgrim

is (soccer) someone connected with , as a fan, player, coach etc.

pilgrim

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who travels, especially on a journey to visit sites of religious significance.
  • * Bible, Hebrews xi. 13
    • strangers and pilgrims on the earth

    Derived terms

    * pilgrimage

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To journey; to wander; to ramble.
    • (Grew)
    (Carlyle)
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    grim

    English

    Adjective

    (grimmer)
  • dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding
    • Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
  • rigid and unrelenting
    • His grim determination enabled him to win.
  • ghastly or sinister
    • A grim castle overshadowed the village.
  • * 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “ The Hunger Games''”, in ''AV Club :
    • In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.
  • (UK, slang) disgusting; gross
    • Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge? —Mate, that is grim !