Pioneer

A pioneer (from Old French peon "foot soldier") is one who has travelled from his or her homeland by choice to live in a "new" land or colony, in particular referring to the American Old West. See Settler. more...

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Modern usage of the term is to do something 'new', to pioneer something as in, to invent something, or take something in a fresh direction.

Pioneer may also refer to:

Military

Assault Pioneer, especially in the British Army, a trained infantry soldier capable of simple combat engineering tasks that would facilitate the passage of the main body of troops, even when under fire; Pioneer (submarine), built in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1862; The Scammell Pioneer Semi-trailer, a British tank recovery and transport vehicle;

Business

Pioneer Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer of electronics; Pioneer Petroleum, an independent gas station chain in Ontario;

Places

Pioneer, California, USA; Pioneer Island, part of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago in the Kara Sea, north of Russia;

Members of organizations

A Mormon pioneer, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who migrated across the United States from the midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the U.S. state of Utah, between 1847 and 1869; Pioneer, a Jehovah's Witness who is in full-time volunteer ministry work (see Organizational structure of Jehovah's Witnesses#Baptized Publishers); Pioneers (Christian group), a Christian missionary organization; The Pioneer Movement, a communist youth movement; The Pioneer Total Abstinence Association, an Irish organisation for Roman Catholic teetotallers; Pionýr, a voluntary organization in the Czech Republic; Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union; Petach Tikva Pioneers, a baseball team in the Israel Baseball League; Pioneer Football Club, an Australian Football League club participating in the Central Australian Football League (CAFL) in the Northern Territory;

Space probes

The Pioneer program, a series of unmanned NASA planetary exploration probes launched between 1958 and 1978; Pioneer 10, launched in 1972, flying past Jupiter in 1973; contact lost in 2000; now encroute to Aldeberan in Taurus; Pioneer 11, launched in 1973, flying past Jupiter in 1974 and Saturn in 1979; contact lost in 1994;

Other uses

Pioneer, a Jew who was active in the development of the land of Israel in the period from 1881 to 1947; The Pioneer, a painting by Frederick McCubbin; The Pioneer (daily) a newspaper published from several North Indian cities; one of India's oldest newspapers; Geneon, Japanese anime and home entertainment production and distribution company, formerly known as Pioneer Entertainment, or Pioneer LDC; Pioneer Network, a group of charismatic Christian churches, mainly in Great Britain; Pioneer plant, a plant adapted to the extreme environment of an otherwise barren location;

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