pioneer
IPA: paɪʌnˈɪr
noun
- 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.
- (obsolete, military) 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.
- (communism) A member of a children’s organization operated by the Communist Party, typically in the second of three stages toward becoming an member of the Party itself.
- (Singapore) A person born on or before 31 December 1949 and possessing Singapore citizenship on or before 31 December 1986, given this status and certain benefits to recognise their contributions to Singapore's early development.
- A census-designated place in Amador County, California, United States.
- A planning area in the West Region of Singapore.
- (Singapore) Alternative letter-case form of Pioneer (“A Singaporean born on or before 31 December 1949, who is entitled to various healthcare and social support schemes.”) [(Singapore) A person born on or before 31 December 1949 and possessing Singapore citizenship on or before 31 December 1986, given this status and certain benefits to recognise their contributions to Singapore's early development.]
verb
- (transitive) To be the first to do or achieve (something), preparing the way for others to follow.
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Examples of "pioneer" in Sentences
- Julius Blank is a semiconductor pioneer.
- He was the pioneer of the national ballet.
- The mascot of the university is the Pioneer.
- Gade was among the pioneers in microbiology.
- He was a pioneer of artificial insemination.
- Ballooning was a risky business for the pioneers.
- He was the most innovative of the early rocket pioneers.
- He was an early pioneer of stellar photoelectric photometry.
- He was one of the early pioneers of the finite element method.
- George Jessen was an optometrist who was an early pioneer of the contact lens.