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Founding vs Pioneer - What's the difference?

founding | pioneer |

As verbs the difference between founding and pioneer

is that founding is present participle of lang=en while pioneer is to go before and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.

As nouns the difference between founding and pioneer

is that founding is the action of the verb to found; the establishment of something while pioneer is one who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.

As an adjective founding

is who or that founds or found.

founding

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to found ; the establishment of something.
  • the founding of the republic
  • * 2005 , Donatella Della Porta, Sidney G. Tarrow, Transnational Protest and Global Activism
  • Do foundings of transnational organizations appear to spur foundings of national organizations, or vice versa?

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Who or that founds or found.
  • The founding fathers of our country.

    pioneer

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
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  • , author=Audrey Garric , title=Urban canopies let nature bloom , volume=188, issue=22, page=30 , magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) citation , passage=As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.}}
    Some people will consider their national heroes to be pioneers of civilization.
    Certain politicians can be considered as pioneers of reform.
  • (obsolete, military)   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.
  • (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.
  • Derived terms

    * pioneer axon * Pioneer Day

    See also

    * (Pioneer movement)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To go before and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.
  • Synonyms

    * push the envelope * break new ground