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pioneer:
(plural: ‘pioneers‘; pronunciation: please, listen to the pronunciation of the word used in the video you see on the right of this text)
the pioneers of Americas crossing, the strange lands (the Great Plains of N. America) in their pioneer wagons
a person who goes to strange and unknown lands and settles there;
a settler; an explorer; a colonist;
a person who does something for the first time and makes way for the others to follow;
a person who develops something, makes some new innovations, and opens up new ways of doing something;
a founder; an innovator;
(in the army) a soldier who does the construction work, such as making roads, clearing ground, etc., for the troops to move freely or to stay comfortably;
some pioneers in South Africa (two very important families that first settled in South Africa)
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The pioneers of the Americas had to face a lot of problems: harsh weather conditions, unfriendly locals, unknown diseases, etc.
J. Craig Venter is a pioneer scientific researcher; founder, chairman, president of the J. Craig Venter Institute; and the founder and CEO of Synthetic Genomics Inc.
Jimmy Wales, the pioneer/founder of Wikipedia
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