Pioneer vs Trailblazer - What's the difference?
pioneer | trailblazer |
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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(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.
One that blazes a trail to guide others; a pathfinder.
(figuratively) An innovative leader in a field; a pioneer.
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As nouns the difference between pioneer and trailblazer
is that pioneer is one who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow while trailblazer is one that blazes a trail to guide others; a pathfinder.As a verb pioneer
is to go before and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.pioneer
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(Webster 1913)Noun
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- Some people will consider their national heroes to be pioneers of civilization.
- Certain politicians can be considered as pioneers of reform.
