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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

... metaphysics and in politics, was the pioneer of French thought. In education there is less room for scientific originality. The sage of a parish, provided only she began her trade with an open and energetic mind, may here pass philosophers. Locke was nearly as sage, as homely, as real, as one of these strenuous women. The honest plainness ...

— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley

... Maysville, where the celebrated Daniel Boone, the pioneer of Kentucky backwoods life, once lived; and as the wind began to fall, I pulled into a fine creek about four miles below the village, having made twenty-nine miles under most discouraging circumstances. The river was here, as elsewhere, lighted by small hand-lanterns ...

— Four Months in a Sneak-Box • Nathaniel H. Bishop

... is a different physical aspect to the Native Son, there is, compared to the rest of the country, a different social aspect to him. California is still young, still pioneer in outlook. Society has not yet shaken down into those tightly stratified layers, typical of the East. There is a real spirit ...

— The Native Son • Inez Haynes Irwin

... expressed; they are heard in the seats of learning, and even in the Church Congress; but the suppression of Paine, begun by bigotry and ignorance, is continued in the long indifference of the representatives of our Age of Reason to their pioneer and founder. It is a grievous loss to them and to their cause. It is impossible to understand the religious history of England, and of America, without studying the phases of their evolution represented in the writings of Thomas Paine, in the ...

— The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete - With Index to Volumes I - IV • Thomas Paine

... back to the houseboat, but there were so many plans to be made for this pioneer existence. The girls decided that they intended to play at being their own great-great grandmothers. They were settlers who had just landed on the shores of a new country. They must prove that they had the old ...

— Madge Morton's Secret • Amy D. V. Chalmers

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