pioneer

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsinnovatortrailblazergroundbreaker

   Broaderoriginator
2. 2.

   one of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory

   “they went west as pioneers with only the possessions they could carry with them”

   Broadersettler

   NarrowerbushmanfrontiersmanfrontierswomanBowieChapman

Other forms of pioneer

plural

pioneers·

past tense

pioneered·

present participle

pioneering·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pioneer

What does pioneer mean?

pioneer means "open up an area or prepare a way". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pioneer?

pioneer has 3 syllables: pi-o-neer. The stress falls on "neer". In IPA it is /ˌpaɪəˈnɪɹ/.

What is another word for pioneer?

Close synonyms include open up, initiate, innovator, trailblazer, groundbreaker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pioneer a common word?

pioneer is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with pioneer?

11 words rhyme with pioneer. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.