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.
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:

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Military

Business

Places

Members of organizations

Space probes

Other uses

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 enroute 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

★ '', 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

★ The Pioneers, Class of 2003 of Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad