Pioneer
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A pioneer is typically a person who has migrated to a less occupied area and established permanent residence there, often to colonize the area. The word is similar to Settler in both usage and meaning, but pioneers are usually among the first to an area, whereas settlers can arrive after first settlement and join others.
Another common use is to establish one as an innovator in a particular field, ie: "Mr. Smith is a pioneer in the teaching profession..."
In United States history the "American pioneer" refers to those people who helped to settle new lands.
[edit] Other uses
Pioneer may also refer to:
In business:
- Pioneer Corporation, a Japan based manufacturer of electronics
- Pioneer Hi-Bred, a seed producer in the United States
- Pioneer Petroleum, an independent gas station chain in Ontario
- Geneon or Pioneer Entertainment, a Japanese production and distribution company
- Pioneer Surgical Technology, a Michigan based medical device company.
- Pioneer Investments, an investment management company.
Geographically:
- Pioneer, California, USA
- Pioneer, Louisiana, USA
- Pioneer Island, part of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago in the Kara Sea, north of Russia
In military:
- Pioneer (submarine), built in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1862
- Assault Pioneer, a trained infantry soldier capable of simple combat engineering tasks
- Scammell Pioneer Semi-trailer, a British tank recovery and transport vehicle
In religion:
- Pioneers (missions agency), a Christian missionary organization
- Mormon pioneers, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who migrated to the Salt Lake Valley
- Pioneer Total Abstinence Association, an Irish organisation for Roman Catholics
- Pioneer, a level of Baptized Publishers of Jehovah's Witnesses
- Pioneering (Bahá'í), unpaid lay missionary work for the Bahá'í religion
In other uses:
- Pioneer plant, a plant adapted to the extreme environment of an otherwise barren location
- Pioneer butterfly, another name for the Caper White (Belenois aurota)
- Pioneer Movement, a communist youth movement
- Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union
- Petach Tikva Pioneers, a baseball team in the Israel Baseball League\
- Pioneer program, a series of unmanned NASA planetary exploration probes launched between 1958 and 1978
- Pioneer 10, the first human-built spacecraft to leave the solar system
- Pioneer 11, the first human-built spacecraft to explore Saturn
- Pioneer: a word commonly used in Ireland by a person who has decided not to consume alcohol during their life.
[edit] See also
- Pionýr, a voluntary organization in the Czech Republic
- The Pioneer (disambiguation)
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