PIONEER

Definition:

1. [noun] someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art
   Synonyms: innovator, trailblazer, groundbreaker
   
   
2. [noun] one the first colonists or settler in a new territory; "they went west as pioneers with only the possessions they could carry with them"
   
   
3. [verb] open up an area or prepare a way; "She pioneered a graduate program for women students"
   Synonyms: open up
   
   
4. [verb] take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of; "This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplants"
   Synonyms: initiate
   
   
5. [verb] open up and explore a new area; "pioneer space"
   
   

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Related Words:

• strike up
• introduce, innovate
• trip, actuate, trigger, activate, set off, spark off, spark, trigger off, touch off
• establish, found, plant, constitute, institute
• stage, bring about, arrange
• mount
• undertake, set about, attempt
• organize, organise, prepare, devise, get up, machinate
• bushman
• frontiersman, backwoodsman, mountain man
• frontierswoman
• Bowie, Jim Bowie, James Bowie
• Chapman, John Chapman, Johnny Appleseed

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