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word pioneer
definition
noun
Someone who is referred to as a pioneer in a particular area of activity is one of the first people to be involved in it and develop it.
...one of the leading pioneers of British photo journalism.
...Amelia Earhart, the pioneer pilot.
Pioneers are people who leave their own country or the place where they were living, and go and live in a place that has not been lived in before.
...abandoned settlements of early European pioneers.
verb
Someone who pioneers a new activity, invention, or process is one of the first people to do it.
...Professor Alec Jeffreys, who invented and pioneered DNA tests.
Marine biologists have pioneered a technique to grow man-made coral gardens.
...the folk-tale writing style pioneered by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
inflections pioneerspioneeringpioneered
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