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Type Words
Synonyms initiate
Type of make, do, cause
Has types establish, found, get up, innovate, institute, introduce, machinate, mount, organise, organize, plant, prepare, set about, set off, spark, spark off, stage, strike up, touch off, trigger, trigger off, trip, activate, undertake, actuate, arrange, attempt, constitute, devise


This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplants.
Type Words
Synonyms open up
Type of introduce, innovate


She pioneered a graduate program for women students.
Type Words
Synonyms groundbreaker, innovator, trailblazer
Type of mastermind, originator, conceiver
Type Words
Type of settler, colonist
Has types backwoodsman, bushman, frontiersman, frontierswoman, mountain man


they went west as pioneers with only the possessions they could carry with them.
Type Words
Type of explore


pioneer space.

Examples of pioneer

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He was a pioneer student at Indian Landing School, where there was no cafeteria.
From the democratandchronicle.com
Choreographer Merce Cunningham was a pioneer of 20th-century American modernism.
From the guardian.co.uk
One notable pioneer in the field is Doctor Alex Richardson at Oxford University.
From the independent.co.uk
Freud is Sigmund Freud, the psychoanalysis pioneer who lived in Vienna, Austria.
From the guardian.co.uk
So far, the king of this new field, in my view, remains its pioneer, the iPhone.
From the online.wsj.com
Offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson had been a no-huddle pioneer at Northwestern.
From the dallasnews.com
He later became a pioneer in the use of computers for mathematical calculations.
From the post-gazette.com
The program mirrors much of what the pioneer in this sector, Y Combinator, does.
From the avc.com
That's the year the pioneer ranching family sold the Cal Expo site to the state.
From the sacbee.com
More examples
  • Open up an area or prepare a way; "She pioneered a graduate program for women students"
  • Someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art
  • Initiate: take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of; "This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplants"
  • One the first colonists or settlers in a new territory; "they went west as pioneers with only the possessions they could carry with them"
  • Open up and explore a new area; "pioneer space"
  • Pioneer was a 19th century paddle-steamer gunboat used in New Zealand. Built in Sydney to the order of the New Zealand colonial government by the Australian Steam Navigation Company, she cost 9,500 pounds. ...
  • The Pioneer was a passenger train run by Amtrak from Seattle, Washington to Chicago, Illinois via Portland, Oregon, Boise, Idaho, Salt Lake City, Utah, Denver, Colorado and other intermediate points.
  • Is a multinational corporation that specializes in digital entertainment products, based in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan. The company was founded in 1938 in Tokyo as a radio and speaker repair shop. Today, Pioneer is well-known for technology advancements in the consumer electronics industry.
  • The hybrid elm cultivar Ulmus u00D7 hollandica 'Pioneer' is an American clone arising from the crossing of two European species, Wych Elm U. glabra (female parent) and Field Elm U. minor. Raised by the USDA station at Delaware, Ohio, in 1971, 'Pioneer' was released to commerce in 1983.