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noun
- One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow
- (context, obsolete, military) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.
- pioneers of civilization; pioneers of reform
- (Ireland) a member of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association, a Catholic group who pledge abstinence from alcohol.
- (Russia) 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 (after окÑÑбÑÑнок and before комÑомолеÑ).W:Pioneer movement, W
verb
- To go before and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.
Etymology: From pionier, originally, a foot soldier, peonier, from peon a foot soldier (French: pion). See pawn in chess.]
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