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pioneer
pioneer is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive/intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.
- 2noun
One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow; as, pioneers of civilization; pioneers of reform.
- 3transitive/intransitive verb
To go before, and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.
- 4noun
one the first colonists or settlers in a new territory
"they went west as pioneers with only the possessions they could carry with them"
- 5noun
someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art
- 6verb
open up and explore a new area
"pioneer space"
- 7verb
take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of
"This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplants"
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- 8verb
open up an area or prepare a way
"She pioneered a graduate program for women students"
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