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/pˌaɪənˈɪr/ Listen

noun

Pioneer n.

(Mil.) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.

One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow; as, pioneers of civilization; pioneers of reform.

verb

Pioneer v. t. & v. i. (past & past part. pioneered; pres. part. pioneering)

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

To take part in the early development of; to break ground in; to invent or originate.

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Etymology of 'Pioneer'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pioneer" Quotes from Famous Books

... concerned, was in the mid-stream of a gigantic movement which had begun in the summer of 1915, set going by the kindling energy of Mr. Lloyd George, and seconded by the roused strength of a nation which was not the industrial pioneer of the whole modern world for nothing, however keenly others, during the last half-century, have pressed upon—or in some regions passed—her. Everywhere I found new workshops already filled with workers, a large proportion of them women, already turning out a mass of shell which ...

— The War on All Fronts: England's Effort - Letters to an American Friend • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... Bourgtheroulde (between Seine and Rille), and the Lion of Justice held a court in Rouen to judge them. Some were imprisoned in his Tower by the Seine, and some in Gloucester, while a satiric poet, named Luke of Barre, paid the penalty of being a pioneer in scoffing politics by having his eyes put out. At Henry's death in 1135, Matilda's infant heir was still very young at Le Mans, and the usual anarchy followed both in England and in Normandy that was inevitable when the ...

— The Story of Rouen • Sir Theodore Andrea Cook

... true of the history of this country. The struggles of the pioneer fathers are preserved, produced and re-produced, and cherished with undying interest by all Americans, and the day will not arrive while the Republic exists, when these histories will not be ...

— The Underground Railroad • William Still

... overhanging, gave accent to the rugged force of this grim freebooter who had reversed the law of nature which decrees that railroads shall follow civilization. Scorning the established rule of progress, he had spiked his rails through untrodden forests and unexplored canons to watch the pioneer come after by the road he had blazed. Chief among the makers of the Northwest, he yearly conceived and executed with amazing audacity enterprises that would have marked as monumental the life ...

— The Vision Spendid • William MacLeod Raine

... years passed by Brick Willock in dreary solitude, conditions about him had changed. The hardships of pioneer life which, fifty years ago, had obtained in the Middle States yet prevailed, in 1882, in the tract of land claimed by Texas under the name of Greer County; but the dangers of pioneer life were greatly lessened. ...

— Lahoma • John Breckenridge Ellis

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