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| pioneer | |
| 1. n. One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow. |  |
| 2. n. A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress. | |
| Some people will consider their national heroes to be pioneers of civilization. | |
| Certain politicians can be considered as pioneers of reform. | |
| 3. n. (obsolete, military) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances; a sapper. | |
| 4. n. A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol. | |
| 5. n. (Communism) A child of 10–16 years in the former Soviet Union, in the second of the three stages in becoming a member of the Communist Party. | |
| 6. v. To go before and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer. | |
