Definition of Pioneer

1. Verb. Open up an area or prepare a way. "She pioneered a graduate program for women students"

Exact synonyms: Open Up
Generic synonyms: Innovate, Introduce

2. Noun. Someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art.
Exact synonyms: Groundbreaker, Innovator, Trailblazer
Generic synonyms: Conceiver, Mastermind, Originator
Derivative terms: Innovate

3. Verb. Take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of. "This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplants"

4. Noun. One the first colonists or settlers in a new territory. "They went west as pioneers with only the possessions they could carry with them"

5. Verb. Open up and explore a new area. "Pioneer space"
Generic synonyms: Explore

Definition of Pioneer

1. n. A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.

2. v. t. & i. To go before, and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.

Definition of Pioneer

1. Noun. One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow ¹

2. Noun. A person who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress ¹

3. Noun. (obsolete military) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances; a sapper. ¹

4. Noun. A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol. ¹

5. Noun. (context: Communism) A child of 10–16 years in the former Soviet Union, in the second of the three stages in becoming a member of the Communist Party. ¹

6. Verb. To go before and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pioneer

1. to take part in the beginnings of [v -ED, -ING, -S]

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