PIONEER

Pioneer

A pioneer is a soldier employed to perform engineering and construction tasks. The term is in principle similar to sapper.

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pioneer

Noun

  1. One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.
  2. 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. A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances; a sapper.
  4. A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol.
  5. 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.

Verb

  1. To go before and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.


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