pioneer as a noun: - 1
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as a verb: - 1
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pioneer
noun
1 pioneer
Someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art.
synonyms: groundbreaker, innovator, trailblazer.
Roget 673:
preparation;
providing
etc.
v.;
provision,
providence;
anticipation
etc.
(foresight)
510;
precaution,
preconcertation†,
predisposition;
forecast
etc.
(plan)
626;
rehearsal,
note of preparation.
[Putting in order]
arrangement
etc.
60;
clearance;
adjustment
etc.
23;
tuning;
equipment,
outfit,
accouterment,
armament,
array.
ripening
etc.
v.;
maturation,
evolution;
elaboration,
concoction,
digestion;
gestation,
batching,
incubation,
sitting.
groundwork,
first stone,
cradle,
stepping-stone;
foundation,
scaffold
etc.
(support)
215;
scaffolding,
echafaudage [Fr.].
[Preparation of men]
training
etc.
(education)
537;
inurement
etc.
(habit)
613;
novitiate;
cooking
[Preparation of food],
cookery;
brewing,
culinary art;
tilling,
plowing,
[Preparation of the soil],
sowing;
semination†,
cultivation.
[State of being prepared]
preparedness,
readiness,
ripeness,
mellowness;
maturity;
un impromptu fait a loisir [Fr.].
[Preparer]
preparer,
trainer;
pioneer,
trailblazer;
avant-courrier [Fr.],
avant-coureur [Fr.];
voortrekker [Afrik.];
sappers and miners,
pavior†,
navvy†;
packer,
stevedore;
warming pan.
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Roget 540:
teacher,
trainer,
instructor,
institutor,
master,
tutor,
director,
Corypheus,
dry nurse,
coach,
grinder,
crammer,
don;
governor,
bear leader;
governess,
duenna [Sp.];
disciplinarian.
professor,
lecturer,
reader,
prelector†,
prolocutor,
preacher;
chalk talker,
khoja†;
pastor
etc.
(clergy)
996;
schoolmaster,
dominie [Fr.],
usher,
pedagogue,
abecedarian;
schoolmistress,
dame,
monitor,
pupil teacher.
expositor
etc.
524;
preceptor,
guide;
guru;
mentor
etc.
(adviser)
695;
pioneer,
apostle,
missionary,
propagandist,
munshi†,
example
etc.
(model for imitation)
22.
professorship
etc.
(school)
542.
tutelage
etc.
(teaching)
537.
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Roget 64:
precursor,
antecedent,
precedent,
predecessor;
forerunner,
vancourier†,
avant-coureur [Fr.],
pioneer,
prodrome†,
prodromos†,
prodromus†,
outrider;
leader,
bellwether;
herald,
harbinger;
foreboding;
dawn;
avant-courier,
avant-garde,
bellmare†,
forelooper†,
foreloper†,
stalking-horse,
voorlooper [Afrik.],
voortrekker [Afrik.].
prelude,
preamble,
preface,
prologue,
foreword,
avant-propos [Fr.],
protasis†,
proemium†,
prolusion†,
proem,
prolepsis [Gramm.],
prolegomena,
prefix,
introduction;
heading,
frontispiece,
groundwork;
preparation
etc.
673;
overture,
exordium [Lat.],
symphony;
premises.
prefigurement
etc.
511;
omen
etc.
512.
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Roget 234:
front;
fore,
forepart;
foreground;
face,
disk,
disc,
frontage;
facade,
proscenium,
facia [Lat.],
frontispiece;
anteriority†;
obverse
(of a medal or coin).
fore rank,
front rank;
van,
vanguard;
advanced guard;
outpost;
first line;
scout.
brow,
forehead,
visage,
physiognomy,
phiz†,
countenance,
mut [Slang];
rostrum,
beak,
bow,
stem,
prow,
prore†,
jib.
pioneer
etc.
(precursor)
64;
metoposcopy†.
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Dutch: pionier
Polish: innowator, nowator
2 pioneer
One of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory.
Dutch: pioneer, pionierster
Polish: pionier
verb
1 pioneer
Open up an area or prepare a way:
— She pioneered a graduate program for women students.
synonym: open up.
2 pioneer
Take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of:
— This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplants.
synonym: initiate.
Dutch: pionieren
3 pioneer
Open up and explore a new area.
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