PATHFINDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pathfinder mean? 

• PATHFINDER (noun)
  The noun PATHFINDER has 1 sense:

1. someone who can find paths through unexplored territory

  Familiarity information: PATHFINDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PATHFINDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who can find paths through unexplored territory

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

guide; pathfinder; scout

Hypernyms ("pathfinder" is a kind of...):

expert (a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pathfinder"):

hunting guide (guide to people hunting in unfamiliar territory)

trailblazer (someone who marks a trail by leaving blazes on trees)

Instance hyponyms:

Sacagawea; Sacajawea (the Shoshone guide and interpreter who guided the Lewis and Clark expedition part of the way)

 Context examples 

I told him. And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler. He had casually conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)