pioneer
/ˌpaɪəˈnɪəɹ/ · noun
Meaning
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- To be the first to do or achieve (something), preparing the way for others to follow.
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