PIONEER

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 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 of the first colonists or settlers 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)

Sense 1

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)

Derivation:

pioneer (take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of)

pioneer (open up an area or prepare a way)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One of the first colonists or settlers 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))

Derivation:

pioneer (open up and explore a new area)

• PIONEER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they pioneer    ... he / she / it pioneers   
Past simple: pioneered   
Past participle: pioneered   
-ing form: pioneering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Open up an area or prepare a way

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

open up; pioneer

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

Derivation:

pioneer (someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art)

Sense 2

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"):

strike up (begin)

innovate; introduce (bring something new to an environment)

activate; actuate; set off; spark; spark off; touch off; trigger; trigger off; trip (put in motion or move to act)

constitute; establish; found; institute; plant (set up or lay the groundwork for)

arrange; stage (plan, organize, and carry out (an event))

mount (put up or launch)

attempt; set about; undertake (enter upon an activity or enterprise)

devise; get up; machinate; organise; organize; prepare (arrange by systematic planning and united effort)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

pioneer (someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art)

Sense 3

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

Derivation:

pioneer (one of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory)

 Context examples 

"It is called after the pioneer who discovered it. It is Maple White Land."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The project that comes up could bring you into a very new realm where you will have much to learn and may rightly be called a pioneer in this area.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

IBCSG has been a pioneer in research into combined hormonal therapy and chemotherapy, timing and duration of Adjuvant Therapies, and Quality of Life of breast cancer patients.

(International Breast Cancer Study Group, NCI Thesaurus)

Claire Johnson, the chief executive of Hydrogen Mobility Australia, an industry association, says the pioneering research could forever change the transport sector.

(Cars Powered by New Fuel Type Tested in Australia, VOA)

The research team, led by drug delivery pioneer Nicholas Peppas, conducted the study over four years at UT's Institute for Biomaterials, Drug Delivery & Regenerative Medicine.

(Novel nanogels hold promise for improved drug delivery to cancer patients, National Science Foundation)

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Granada (UGR), has designed a new hydrogel using pioneering polymer microarrays technology, which successfully helps to regenerate cartilage.

(Scientists design a new hydrogel that helps regenerate cartilage, University of Granada)

Researchers from the University of Tübingen (Germany) and the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), among others, are also participating in this pioneering research project.

(Hair was dyed for first time as part of funeral rituals, University of Granada)

A group of researchers from the Area of Toxicology in the Department of Nutrition and Bromatology, Toxicology and Legal Medicine at the University of Seville has published the globally pioneering study.

(Steaming Fish More Healthy than Boiling, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A pioneering study has identified the oldest evidence of HBV in the ancient remains and proved that viruses can become extinct.

(Oldest genetic evidence of Hepatitis B virus found in ancient DNA from 4,500 year-old skeletons, University of Cambridge)

Petrobras has been working on the development of pioneering technology for the production of biodiesel from microalgae—an alternative to oil-derived fuels used in cars or any other diesel-powered vehicles.

(Petrobras considers producing biodiesel from microalgae, Agência Brasil)