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pioneer
[ pahy-uh-neer ]
noun
- a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others.
- a person, group, or thing that is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or development:
a woman who was a pioneer in cancer research;
vehicles that were pioneers of automotive engineering.
Synonyms: innovator, groundbreaker, trailblazer, leader
- one of a group of foot soldiers detailed to make roads, dig intrenchments, etc., in advance of the main body.
- Ecology. an organism that successfully establishes itself in a barren area, thus starting an ecological cycle of life.
- Pioneer, Aerospace. one of a series of U.S. space probes that explored the solar system and transmitted scientific information to earth.
- Pioneer, (formerly) a member of a Communist organization in the Soviet Union for children ranging in age from 10 to 16. Compare Komsomol ( def 2 ), Octobrist ( def ).
verb (used without object)
- to act as a pioneer.
verb (used with object)
- to be the first to open or prepare (a way, settlement, etc.).
- to take part in the beginnings of; initiate:
to pioneer an aid program.
- to lead the way for (a group); trailblaze.
adjective
- being the earliest, original, first of a particular kind, etc.:
a pioneer method of adult education.
- of, relating to, or characteristic of pioneers:
pioneer justice.
- being a pioneer:
a pioneer fur trader.
Pioneer
1/ ˌpaɪəˈnɪə /
noun
- any of a series of US spacecraft that studied the solar system, esp Pioneer 10, which made the first flyby of Jupiter (1973), and Pioneer 11, which made the first flyby of Saturn (1979)
Pioneer
2/ ˌpaɪəˈnɪə /
noun
- a total abstainer from alcoholic drink, esp a member of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association, a society devoted to abstention
pioneer
3/ ˌpaɪəˈnɪə /
noun
- a colonist, explorer, or settler of a new land, region, etc
- ( as modifier )
a pioneer wagon
- an innovator or developer of something new
- military a member of an infantry group that digs entrenchments, makes roads, etc
- ecology the first species of plant or animal to colonize an area of bare ground
verb
- to be a pioneer (in or of)
- tr to initiate, prepare, or open up
to pioneer a medical programme
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of pioneer1
Example Sentences
Peter Christopherson made the leap to life on the bandstand and became a pioneer in the industrial music genre.
His great-grandfather, David Yellin, was a prominent Zionist scholar and Israeli pioneer.
The first pioneer to reach the riparian tributary where Kansas City now shimmers was, in fact, on the lam himself.
Carver was an agricultural and industrial pioneer—in more ways than one.
And when he died, another agricultural pioneer was just starting to bring research to bear on food production.
Hamo in alluding to the early cultivation of tobacco by the colony, says, that John Rolfe was the pioneer tobacco planter.
Samuel Dale, an eminent pioneer in the settlement of the southwest, died in Lauderdale county, Mississippi.
Roosevelt was also the pioneer in using electro-pneumatic action here.
His high-pressure steam-engine was the pioneer of locomotion and its wide-spreading civilization.
Such is the story of a pioneer enterprise, that of the use of submarine vessels as commerce carriers.
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