Homesteader vs. Pioneer — What's the Difference?

A house, especially a farmhouse, with adjoining buildings and land.

A series of American space probes launched between 1958 and 1973, two of which provided the first clear pictures of Jupiter and Saturn (1973–9).

(Law) Property qualifying as a person's home under certain laws, such as laws providing tax abatements and exemptions, survivorship rights for spouse and children, and immunity from claims of creditors.

Develop or be the first to use or apply (a new method, area of knowledge, or activity)

Land claimed by a settler or squatter, especially under the Homestead Act.

One who ventures into unknown or unclaimed territory to settle.

The place where one's home is.

One who opens up new areas of thought, research, or development

To settle and farm land, especially under the Homestead Act.

A soldier who performs construction and demolition work in the field to facilitate troop movements.

To claim and settle (land) as a homestead.

A species that is typically among the first to become established in a bare, open, or disturbed area.

A pioneer who goes and settles on a homestead.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of early settlers

One who has entered upon a portion of the public land with the purpose of acquiring ownership of it under provisions of the homestead law, so called; one who has acquired a homestead in this manner.

Leading the way; trailblazing

Someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it

To venture into (an area) or prepare (a way)

To settle (a region).

To initiate or participate in the development of

To act as a pioneer

One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.

A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress.

A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances; a sapper.

A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol.

(Communism) A member of a children’s organization operated by the Communist Party, typically in the second of three stages toward becoming an member of the Party itself.

(transitive) To be the first to do or achieve (something), preparing the way for others to follow.

A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.

One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow; as, pioneers of civilization; pioneers of reform.

To go before, and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.

To take part in the early development of; to break ground in; to invent or originate.

Someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art

One the first colonists or settler in a new territory;

Open up an area or prepare a way;

Take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of;

Open up and explore a new area;