pioneer

Etymology
From, , from (modern French: ). See (in chess).

Noun

 * 1) One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.
 * 2) A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress.
 * Some people will consider their national heroes to be pioneers of civilization.
 * Certain politicians can be considered as pioneers of reform.
 * 1)  A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances; a sapper.
 * 2) A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol.
 * 3)  A member of a children’s organization operated by the Communist Party, typically in the second of three stages toward becoming a member of the Party itself.
 * 1) A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol.
 * 2)  A member of a children’s organization operated by the Communist Party, typically in the second of three stages toward becoming a member of the Party itself.

Translations

 * Armenian: ,
 * Belarusian: першапрахо́дзец, першаадкрыва́льнік, піяне́р
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: pioner, pionera
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: pioner
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: панжыця
 * Esperanto: pioniro
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: pioneiro, pioneira
 * Georgian: მოწინავე, პიონერი, დამწყები, თაოსანი, ინიციატორი, ნოვატორი
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: मार्ग-निर्माता
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Korean:, 개척자, 파이어니어
 * Latvian: pionieris, pioniere
 * Malay: perintis
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovak: priekopník
 * Slovene: pionir
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: першопрохо́дець, першовідкрива́ч,


 * Bulgarian: сапьо̀р
 * Danish: pioner
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: pionir


 * Albanian:, pioner
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: pioner
 * Belarusian: піяне́р, піяне́рка
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: pionýr
 * Danish: pioner
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: pioneiro
 * Georgian: პიონერი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Japanese: ピオネール,
 * Kazakh: пионер
 * Korean: 파이오니어, 피오네르
 * Kyrgyz: пионер
 * Latvian: pionieris
 * Lithuanian: pionierius
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пионир
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: pionier
 * Slovene: pionir
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: пионер
 * Turkmen: pioner
 * Ukrainian:, піоне́рка
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: namviet

Verb

 * 1)  To be the first to do or achieve (something), preparing the way for others to follow.
 * The young doctor pioneered a new life-saving surgical technique.

Translations

 * Italian: aprire la strada