{
    "term": "pioneer",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a person who is the first to study and develop a particular area of knowledge, culture, etc. that other people then continue to develop",
            "sensetop": "pioneer (in/of something)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a pioneer in the field of microsurgery"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a computer pioneer"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a pioneer aviator"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a pioneer design *(= one that introduces new ideas, methods, etc.)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "one of the early pioneers in plastic surgery"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He is known as a pioneer in veterinary surgery."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was one of the pioneers in opening up archaeology to everyone."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was lucky to meet the heart transplant pioneer, Dr Christian Barnard."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Modern guitar design owes a lot to the pioneer designs of the forties and fifties."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She later became a pioneer of education for women."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The school was an early pioneer of the technique."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "trailblazer",
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["early", "true"],
                "pioneer + noun": ["spirit"],
                "preposition": ["pioneer in", "pioneer of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "one of the first people to go to a particular place, especially in order to live and work there",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Early pioneers settled on both sides of the Maple River."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the pioneer spirit"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The history of our nation isn't just about hardy pioneers and peaceful settlement, it's about violence and dispossession."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The space pioneer became the oldest person to go into space at the age of 82."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌpaɪəˈnɪə(r)/",
                "audio": "pi/pioneer/pioneer__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌpaɪəˈnɪr/",
                "audio": "pi/pioneer/pioneer__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 16th cent. (as a military term denoting a member of the infantry): from French pionnier ‘foot soldier, pioneer’, Old French paonier, from paon, from Latin pedo, pedon- ‘foot soldier’, from Latin pes, ped- ‘foot’."
}