Pioneer
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Pioneer may refer to:
- Woodsman, one who makes his living in the wilderness through trapping, hunting, logging, and/or prospecting
- Settler, one who has travelled from his or her homeland by choice to live in a "new" land or colony
- Mormon Pioneer, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who crossed the Great Plains
- Halutz, a number of idealist movements for Jews to settle in Palestine (between 1881 and 1947), or an individual active in the physical development of the Land in that period. Bilu is a notable example.
- As an adjective (as in "pioneer days"), referring to the American Old West
- A person who initiated a particular action or idea, or it may refer to the idea or action itself if it was the source of a subsequent idea or action
- Combat Engineer or sapper
- Pioneer, a term used by Jehovah's Witnesses to describe someone who is in the full-time volunteer ministry work
- A member of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association, an Irish organisation for Roman Catholic Teetotallers
- A donor who raised more than $100,000 for one of George W. Bush's Presidential campaigns.
- A member of the Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union
- Pioneers, a free game based on "The Settlers of Catan" Website
- The Pioneer, a painting by Frederick McCubbin
Pioneer may also be:
- Pioneer Corporation, a Japanese company that produces consumer electronics
- Geneon, formerly Pioneer Entertainment, the multimedia arm of Pioneer Corporation
- Pioneer (Amtrak), a Chicago-Seattle passenger train run by Amtrak until 1997
- Pioneer Czech (Pionyr), a democratic, voluntary and independent organisation of children, youth and adult people in Czech Republic
- Pioneer Movement, a communist youth movement
- Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., an agricultrual company, which is part of DuPont
- Pioneer Hotel and Gambling Hall, a casino in Laughlin, Nevada
- Pioneer Island, part of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago in the Kara Sea, north of Russia
- 'Pioneer Pro DJ', a division of the Japanese company dedicated to DJ equipment, Website
- Pioneer (locomotive), the first locomotive to operate in Chicago
- Pioneer plant, a plant adapted to the extreme environment of an otherwise barren location
- Pioneer program, a series of space probes, partly from the US Armed Forces, partly from NASA's Ames Research Center
- Pioneer (robot), a robot developed in China
- Pioneer Camper Trailers, a Perth, Western Australia based company which designs and builds camper trailers Website
- The Pioneer, a student-run newspaper published by the students of Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington
- The Pioneer (daily), an English language newspaper published from Delhi, India
- RQ-2 Pioneer, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), developed by USA and Israel
- RT-21M Pioneer, a medium-range ballistic missiles
- Pioneer is a supermarket chain in the New York City area
- Pioneers, a song by Bloc Party from their album Silent Alarm (album)
- Pioneer Records, a small indie label based in the UK
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