Mayflower Vocabulary

A Journey to a distant place

• pilgrim

• voyage

• compact

• mariner

A person who lives in a colony

• colonist

• covenant

• crowded

• compact

The ship on which pilgrims traveled to the New World.

• Wampanoag

• strangers

• sovereign

• Mayflower

Another name for a sailor.

• breeches

• strangers

• colonist

• mariner

A person that goes on a long journey.

• pilgrim

• sovereign

• breeches

• covenant

A formal, binding agreement.

• voyage

• covenant

• mariner

• compact

Too many people in a space at a given time.

• colonist

• pilgrim

• crowded

• stranger

Knee-length pants worn by pilgrim boys.

• breeches

• Wampanoag

• mariner

• compact

One that exercises supreme authority. (Person in charge)

• Wampanoag

• pilgrim

• compact

• sovereign

Non-pilgrim people aboard the ship.

• crowded

• mariner

• voyage

• strangers