Synonyms of pioneers

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noun

plural of pioneer

as in settlers

a person who settles in a new region

the hardships that the pioneers endured while taming the wilderness

Synonyms & Similar Words

• settlers
• colonists
• frontiersmen
• homesteaders
• colonizers
• colonials
• explorers
• pathfinders
• trailblazers
• woodsmen
• mountain men
• bushrangers

pioneers

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verb

present tense third-person singular of pioneer

as in founds

to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of

he single-handedly pioneered the university's institute for medical research

Synonyms & Similar Words

• founds
• institutes
• establishes
• initiates
• introduces
• launches
• plants
• creates
• authors
• fathers
• begins
• inaugurates
• constitutes
• innovates
• constructs
• originates
• starts
• sets up
• manufactures
• organizes
• invents
• devises
• thinks (up)
• develops
• cooks (up)
• produces
• makes up
• funds
• conceives
• finances
• expands
• concocts
• contrives
• systemizes
• subsidizes
• systematizes
• enlarges
• endows
• refounds
• reinstitutes
• fabricates
• arranges
• relaunches
• puts up
• reinitiates

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• closes (down)
• shuts (up)
• annuls
• ends
• stops
• abolishes
• annihilates
• phases out
• finishes
• nullifies
• rounds (off or out)
• halts
• winds up
• terminates
• wraps up