pioneer
see also: Pioneer
Pronunciation
Pioneer
Noun
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see also: Pioneer
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌpaɪəˈnɪəɹ/
pioneer (plural pioneers)
- One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.
- A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress.
- Some people will consider their national heroes to be pioneers of civilization.
- Certain politicians can be considered as pioneers of reform.
- (obsolete, military) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances; a sapper.
- A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol.
- (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.
- French: pionnier, pionnière
- German: Pionier, Wegbereiter
- Italian: pioniere, pioniera
- Portuguese: pioneiro
- Russian: первопрохо́дец
- Spanish: pionero
- German: Pionier
- Russian: пионе́р
pioneer (pioneers, present participle pioneering; past and past participle pioneered)
- (transitive) To be the first to do or achieve (something), preparing the way for others to follow.
- The young doctor pioneered a new life-saving surgical technique.
Pioneer
Noun
pioneer (plural pioneers)
- (Singapore) A person born on/before 31 Dec 1949 and possessing Singapore citizenship on/before 31 Dec 1986, given this status and certain benefits to recognise their contributions to Singapore's early development.
- CDP in Amador County, California.
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