Synonyms:
pioneer, innovator, trailblazer, groundbreaker
Meaning: someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art
Synonyms:
pioneer
Meaning: one the first colonists or settlers in a new territory; "they went west as pioneers with only the possessions they could carry with them"
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
pioneer, open_up
Meaning: open up an area or prepare a way; "She pioneered a graduate program for women students"
Usage examples
It still stands in Pioneer Park in Puyallup.
They had the pioneer spirit of their ancestors.
There had been very little of what might be called pioneer life in Springfield.
The pioneer annexes new areas to the economic world and to the market in which he has lived.
Great areas on the edge of civilization still await the pioneer, the prospector, and the miner.
Alice Stone Blackwell, the daughter of Lucy Stone, herself a pioneer suffrage leader and editor, wrote to Mr. Malone:
But the types of these pioneer ironclads, which had demonstrated such unprecedented fighting qualities, were continued.
But, in the Summer of 1784, the tragic day dawned upon the Lincolns which has come to many a pioneer family in Kentucky and elsewhere.
He had sacrificed part of his property to the pioneer spirit within him, and, with the killing of their father, his family lost the rest.
His, under such circumstances, is the destiny of the pioneer; and the first pioneers of the Gospel were the Apostles--their captain was Jesus, the Redeemer, Himself."