PIONEER
Dictionary entry overview: What does pioneer mean?
• PIONEER (noun)
The noun PIONEER has 2 senses:
1. someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art
2. one the first colonists or settler in a new territory
Familiarity information: PIONEER used as a noun is rare.
• PIONEER (verb)
The verb PIONEER has 3 senses:
1. open up an area or prepare a way
2. take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of
3. open up and explore a new area
Familiarity information: PIONEER used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• PIONEER (noun)
Meaning:
Someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
groundbreaker; innovator; pioneer; trailblazer
Hypernyms ("pioneer" is a kind of...):
conceiver; mastermind; originator (someone who creates new things)
Meaning:
One the first colonists or settler in a new territory
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Context example:
they went west as pioneers with only the possessions they could carry with them
Hypernyms ("pioneer" is a kind of...):
colonist; settler (a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pioneer"):
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)
Instance hyponyms:
Bowie; James Bowie; Jim Bowie (United States pioneer and hero of the Texas revolt against Mexico; he shared command of the garrison that resisted the Mexican attack on the Alamo where he died (1796-1836))
Chapman; John Chapman; Johnny Appleseed (United States pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled (1774-1845))
• PIONEER (verb)
Meaning:
Open up an area or prepare a way
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Synonyms:
pioneer; open up
Context example:
She pioneered a graduate program for women students
Hypernyms (to "pioneer" is one way to...):
innovate; introduce (bring something new to an environment)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Synonyms:
initiate; pioneer
Context example:
This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplants
Hypernyms (to "pioneer" is one way to...):
cause; do; make (give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pioneer"):
attempt; set about; undertake (enter upon an activity or enterprise)
mount (put up or launch)
arrange; stage (plan, organize, and carry out (an event))
constitute; establish; found; institute; plant (set up or lay the groundwork for)
activate; actuate; set off; spark; spark off; touch off; trigger; trigger off; trip (put in motion or move to act)
innovate; introduce (bring something new to an environment)
strike up (begin)
devise; get up; machinate; organise; organize; prepare (arrange by systematic planning and united effort)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Open up and explore a new area
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Context example:
pioneer space
Hypernyms (to "pioneer" is one way to...):
explore (travel to or penetrate into)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
