pioneer
/ˌpaɪ.əˈnɪɹ/ noun C1- 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. · Some people will consider their national heroes to be pioneers of civilization.· Certain politicians can be considered as pioneers of reform.
- 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.
- 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.
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Formerly 1st Bangalore Pioneers.
You may look upon me simply as an irregular pioneer, who goes in front of the regular forces of the country.
With the aid of his pickaxe, Dantès, after the manner of a labor-saving pioneer, dug a mine between the upper rock and the one that supported it, filled it with powder, then made a match by rolling his handkerchief in saltpetre.
I lost a battle in Spain, I have been defeated in Trieste, but my naval army in India will have taken some galleons, and my Mexican pioneers will have discovered some mine.”
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