Pioneer vs. Explorer
Pioneernoun
One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.
Explorernoun
One who explores something
Pioneernoun
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.’;
Explorernoun
A person who by means of travel (notably an expedition) searches out new information.
Pioneernoun
A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances; a sapper.
Explorernoun
Any of various hand tools, with sharp points, used in dentistry.
Pioneernoun
A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol.
Explorernoun
A visual representation of a file system etc. through which the user can navigate.
Pioneernoun
(Communism) A child of 10–16 years in the former Soviet Union, in the second of the three stages in becoming a member of the Communist Party.
Explorernoun
One who explores; also, an apparatus with which one explores, as a diving bell.
Pioneerverb
To go before and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.
Explorernoun
someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)
Pioneernoun
A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.
Explorernoun
a person who explores a new or unfamiliar area
‘a polar explorer’;
Pioneernoun
One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow; as, pioneers of civilization; pioneers of reform.
Pioneerverb
To go before, and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.
Pioneerverb
to take part in the early development of; to break ground in; to invent or originate.
Pioneernoun
someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art
Pioneernoun
one the first colonists or settler in a new territory;
‘they went west as pioneers with only the possessions they could carry with them’;
Pioneerverb
open up an area or prepare a way;
‘She pioneered a graduate program for women students’;
Pioneerverb
take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of;
‘This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplants’;
Pioneerverb
open up and explore a new area;
‘pioneer space’;
Pioneernoun
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).
Pioneerverb
develop or be the first to use or apply (a new method, area of knowledge, or activity)
‘the technique was pioneered by a Swiss doctor in the 1930s’;
Pioneerverb
open up (a road or terrain) as a pioneer.
