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pi·o·neer

(pī′ə-nîr′)

1. One who ventures into unknown or unclaimed territory to settle.

2. One who opens up new areas of thought, research, or development: a pioneer in aviation.

3. A soldier who performs construction and demolition work in the field to facilitate troop movements.

4. A species that is typically among the first to become established in a bare, open, or disturbed area.

adj.

1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of early settlers: the pioneer spirit.

2. Leading the way; trailblazing: a pioneer treatment for cancer.

v. pi·o·neered, pi·o·neer·ing, pi·o·neers

v.tr.

a. To venture into (an area) or prepare (a way): rockets that pioneered outer space.

b. To settle (a region).

2. To initiate or participate in the development of: surgeons who pioneered organ transplants.

v.intr.

To act as a pioneer: pioneered in development of the laser.

[French pionnier, from Old French peonier, foot soldier, from peon, from Medieval Latin pedō, pedōn-, from Late Latin, one who has broad feet, from Latin pēs, ped-, foot; see ped- in Indo-European roots.]

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pioneer

(ˌpaɪəˈnɪə)

a. a colonist, explorer, or settler of a new land, region, etc

b. (as modifier): a pioneer wagon.

2. an innovator or developer of something new

3. (Military) military a member of an infantry group that digs entrenchments, makes roads, etc

4. (Environmental Science) ecology the first species of plant or animal to colonize an area of bare ground

5. to be a pioneer (in or of)

6. (tr) to initiate, prepare, or open up: to pioneer a medical programme.

[C16: from Old French paonier infantryman, from paon pawn²; see also peon¹]

Pioneer

(ˌpaɪəˈnɪə)

1. a total abstainer from alcoholic drink, esp a member of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association, a society devoted to abstention

2. (Astronautics) any of a series of US spacecraft that studied the solar system, esp Pioneer 10, which made the first flyby of Jupiter (1973), and Pioneer 11, which made the first flyby of Saturn (1979)

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pi•o•neer

(ˌpaɪ əˈnɪər)

n.

1. a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others.

2. one who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress.

3. one of a group of foot soldiers detailed to make roads, dig entrenchments, etc., in advance of the main body.

4. an organism that successfully establishes itself in a barren area, thus starting an ecological cycle of life.

v.i.

5. to act as a pioneer.

v.t.

6. to be the first to open or prepare (a way, settlement, etc.).

7. to take part in the beginnings of; initiate.

8. to lead the way for (a group); guide.

adj.

9. being the earliest or original.

10. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of pioneers.

11. being a pioneer.

[1515–25; < Middle French pionier, Old French peonier foot soldier. See peon², -eer]

pioneer

Past participle: pioneered
Gerund: pioneering

Imperative
pioneer
pioneer

Present
I pioneer
you pioneer
he/she/it pioneers
we pioneer
you pioneer
they pioneer

Preterite
I pioneered
you pioneered
he/she/it pioneered
we pioneered
you pioneered
they pioneered

Present Continuous
I am pioneering
you are pioneering
he/she/it is pioneering
we are pioneering
you are pioneering
they are pioneering

Present Perfect
I have pioneered
you have pioneered
he/she/it has pioneered
we have pioneered
you have pioneered
they have pioneered

Past Continuous
I was pioneering
you were pioneering
he/she/it was pioneering
we were pioneering
you were pioneering
they were pioneering

Past Perfect
I had pioneered
you had pioneered
he/she/it had pioneered
we had pioneered
you had pioneered
they had pioneered

Future
I will pioneer
you will pioneer
he/she/it will pioneer
we will pioneer
you will pioneer
they will pioneer

Future Perfect
I will have pioneered
you will have pioneered
he/she/it will have pioneered
we will have pioneered
you will have pioneered
they will have pioneered

Future Continuous
I will be pioneering
you will be pioneering
he/she/it will be pioneering
we will be pioneering
you will be pioneering
they will be pioneering

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been pioneering
you have been pioneering
he/she/it has been pioneering
we have been pioneering
you have been pioneering
they have been pioneering

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been pioneering
you will have been pioneering
he/she/it will have been pioneering
we will have been pioneering
you will have been pioneering
they will have been pioneering

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been pioneering
you had been pioneering
he/she/it had been pioneering
we had been pioneering
you had been pioneering
they had been pioneering

Conditional
I would pioneer
you would pioneer
he/she/it would pioneer
we would pioneer
you would pioneer
they would pioneer

Past Conditional
I would have pioneered
you would have pioneered
he/she/it would have pioneered
we would have pioneered
you would have pioneered
they would have pioneered

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Noun	1.	pioneer - someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art groundbreaker, innovator, trailblazer conceiver, mastermind, originator - someone who creates new things
	2.	pioneer - one the first colonists or settlers in a new territory; "they went west as pioneers with only the possessions they could carry with them" bushman - a dweller in the Australian bush country backwoodsman, frontiersman, mountain man - a man who lives on the frontier frontierswoman - a woman who lives on the frontier colonist, settler - a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country
Verb	1.	pioneer - open up an area or prepare a way; "She pioneered a graduate program for women students" open up innovate, introduce - bring something new to an environment; "A new word processor was introduced"
	2.	pioneer - take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of; "This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplants" initiate strike up - begin; "strike up a conversation"; "strike up a friendship" innovate, introduce - bring something new to an environment; "A new word processor was introduced" activate, actuate, set off, spark, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off, trip - put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits" cause, do, make - give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident" institute, establish, found, plant, constitute - set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new department" stage, arrange - plan, organize, and carry out (an event); "the neighboring tribe staged an invasion" mount - put up or launch; "mount a campaign" undertake, attempt, set about - enter upon an activity or enterprise machinate, devise, prepare, organise, organize, get up - arrange by systematic planning and united effort; "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office"
	3.	pioneer - open up and explore a new area; "pioneer space" explore - travel to or penetrate into; "explore unknown territory in biology"

pioneer

noun

1. founder, leader, developer, innovator, founding father, trailblazer one of the pioneers in embryology work

2. settler, explorer, colonist, colonizer, frontiersman abandoned settlements of early European pioneers

verb

1. develop, create, launch, establish, start, prepare, discover, institute, invent, open up, initiate, originate, take the lead on, instigate, map out, show the way on, lay the groundwork on the scientist who invented and pioneered DNA tests

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pioneer

noun

A person instrumental in the growth of something, especially in its early stages:

builder, contributor, creator, developer.

adjective

Preceding all others in time:

earliest, first, initial, maiden, original, primary, prime, primordial.

Translations

رائِد، مُعَمِّر الأراضي الأوَّلطَليعي، من الأوائِليَكون أوَّل من، يَكون الطَّليعي

pionýrprobojovávatprůkopník

foregangsmandpioner

Pionier

pionero precursor se el primero en marcar un nuevo rumbo

pionnier

úttörõ

frumherjilandnemivera brautryîjandi

pioniere iniziare

būti pradininkupionieriusskinti kelią

būt celmlauzim, būt pirmajamcelmlauzispionieris, celmlauzis

banebryter pioner være banebrytende

пионер пионерский

pionierpionierskypriekopník

pionir

öncüöncülük etmek

倡导先锋开拓者

pioneer

[ˌpaɪəˈnɪəʳ]

A. N (= explorer) → explorador(a) m/f, pionero/a m/f; (= early settler) → colonizador(a) m/f, pionero/a m/f; (= initiator) → pionero/a m/f, precursor(a) m/f (Mil) → zapador(a) m/f
he was a pioneer in the study of bats → fue uno de los primeros en estudiar los murciélagos

B. VT [+ technique] → ser el/la primero/a en utilizar
he pioneered the use of vitamin B in the treatment of mental illness → fue el primero en utilizar la vitamina B para el tratamiento de enfermedades mentales

C. VI → explorar, abrir nuevos caminos

D. CPD pioneer corps N → cuerpo m de zapadores
pioneer work N → trabajo m pionero

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pioneer

[ˌpaɪəˈnɪə^r]

(= explorer) → pionnier/ière m/f

(= early settler) → pionnier/ière m/f

(fig) → pionnier/ière m/f
a pioneer of sth → un pionnier de qch or une pionnière de qch
the early pioneers of aviation → les premiers pionniers de l'aviation
a pioneer in sth → un pionnier de qch
a pioneer in computer art → un pionnier de l'art informatique

modif

[wagon, village] → de pionnier pioneer spirit

[work, research] → pionnier/ière

vt → être un pionnier de
a hospital which pioneered open heart surgery in Britain → un hôpital qui fut un pionnier de la chirurgie à cœur ouvert en Grande-Bretagne

pioneer

n (Mil) → Pionier m; (fig) → Pionier(in) m(f), → Wegbereiter(in) m(f)

adj attr ? pioneering

vt way → vorbereiten, bahnen; (fig) → Pionierarbeit f → leisten für; to pioneer the use of something (= use for the first time) → etw zum ersten Mal anwenden; the firm which pioneered its technical development → die Firma, die die technische Pionierarbeit dafür geleistet hat

vi → Pionierarbeit or Vorarbeit leisten, den Weg bahnen

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pioneer

[ˌpaɪəˈnɪəʳ]

1. n → pioniere/a

2. vt (technique, invention) → essere l'ideatore/trice di

pioneer

(paiəˈniə) noun

1. a person who goes to a new, often uninhabited or uncivilized (part of a) country to live and work there. The American pioneers; (also adjective) a pioneer family.

2. a person who is the first to study some new subject, or use or develop a new technique etc. Joseph Lister was one of the pioneers of modern medicine; The Wright brothers were the pioneers of aeroplane flight.

verb

to be the first to do or make. Who pioneered the use of vaccine for preventing polio?

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Dan MacDonald, pioneer saloonman and gambler on the upper Yukon, owner and proprietor of the Tivoli and all its games, wandered forlornly across the great vacant space of floor and joined the two at the stove.

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There are two canal lines of passage-boats; one is called The Express, and one (a cheaper one) The Pioneer. The Pioneer gets first to the mountain, and waits for the Express people to come up; both sets of passengers being conveyed across it at the same time.

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Brooke's pen went off into a little speech which it had lately reported for that imperfectly edited organ the "Middlemarch Pioneer." While Mr.

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Appeared a little red-satin Spanish girdle, whale-boned like a tiny corset, pointed, the pioneer finery of a frontier woman who had crossed the plains.

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Therefore, though I am but ill qualified for a pioneer, in the application of these two semi-sciences to the whale, I will do my endeavor.

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With that sort of spiced food provided for his anxious thought, watchful for strange men, strange beasts, strange turns of the tide, he would make the best of his way up, a military seaman with a short sword on thigh and a bronze helmet on his head, the pioneer post- captain of an imperial fleet.

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Irving, who acted as my pioneer, and to whom I am greatly indebted for smoothing my path and lightening my labors.

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There was a delightful history of Ohio, stuffed with tales of the pioneer times, which was a good deal in the hands of us boys; and there was a book of Western Adventure, full of Indian fights and captivities, which we wore to pieces.

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Our instructors were oddly assorted; wandering pioneer school-teachers, stranded ministers of the Gospel, a few enthusiastic young men just out of graduate schools.

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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."

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For many years past the whale-ship has been the pioneer in ferreting out the remotest and least known parts of the earth.

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There was nothing in the books about that lovely region; it had been neglected by the tourist, it was virgin soil for the literary pioneer.