This week’s theme
Illustrated words

This week’s words
succulent
marmorean
afflatus
peregrination
ostentatious

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(per-i-gruh-NAY-shuhn)

MEANING:

noun: Traveling from place to place, also a course of travel, especially on foot.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin peregrinari (to travel abroad), from peregrinus (foreign), from peregre (abroad), from per- (through) + ager (field, country). Ultimately from the Indo-European root agro- (field), which is also the source of agriculture, acre, peregrine, pilgrim (a variant of peregrine), and agrestic. Earliest documented use: 1475.

USAGE:

“Here’s a sample of what I recorded from my peregrinations around society’s watering holes last year.”
Adam Helliker; The End of the Year Review; The Express on Sunday (London, UK); Jan 3, 2016.

See more usage examples of peregrination in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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