Definitions for Pioneer

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Pioneer pi·o·neer

Spelling: [pahy-uh-neer]

IPA: /ˌpaɪ əˈnɪər/

Pioneer is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 146 anagrams from letters in Pioneer (eeinopr).

Definitions for Pioneer

noun

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 intrenchments, etc., in advance of the main body.
4. Ecology. an organism that successfully establishes itself in a barren area, thus starting an ecological cycle of life.
5. (initial capital letter) Aerospace. one of a series of U.S. space probes that explored the solar system and transmitted scientific information to earth.
6. (initial capital letter) (formerly) a member of a Communist organization in the Soviet Union for children ranging in age from 10 to 16. Compare Komsomol, Octobrist.

adjective

1. being the earliest, original, first of a particular kind, etc.:
2. of, relating to, or characteristic of pioneers:
3. being a pioneer:

verb (used with object)

1. to be the first to open or prepare (a way, settlement, etc.).
2. to take part in the beginnings of; initiate:
3. to lead the way for (a group); guide.

verb (used without object)

1. to act as a pioneer.

Origin of Pioneer

1515-25; Middle French pionier, Old French peonier foot soldier. See peon¹, -eer

Examples for Pioneer

Why, he had promised me that I should have pioneer's rights in the realm of beauty.

The pastoral interest is the pioneer interest of a new colony.

The first pioneer to reach the riparian tributary where Kansas City now shimmers was, in fact, on the lam himself.

The video became a hit, and it led Boenish to pioneer a new type of diving—BASE.

Mr. Gladstone may be regarded as the pioneer of the movement.

So how did a popular magazine that was considered a pioneer of the genre end up getting left in the dust?

His great-grandfather, David Yellin, was a prominent Zionist scholar and Israeli pioneer.

He wanted to be a pioneer only in financial paths; and after all, this was our mountain now.

Peter Christopherson made the leap to life on the bandstand and became a pioneer in the industrial music genre.

A pioneer is a brave fellow, with the courage of his own curiosity.