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pioneer

/ˌpaɪəˈnɪəɹ/ · noun

Meaning

  1. One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.
  2. A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress.
  3. A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances; a sapper.
  4. A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol.
  5. 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.
  6. To be the first to do or achieve (something), preparing the way for others to follow.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data