Pioneer vs. Sapper
Difference Between Pioneer and Sapper
Pioneernoun
One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.
Sappernoun
One who saps; specifically, one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like. Often known as a combat engineer or military engineer.
Pioneernoun
A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress.
Some people will consider their national heroes to be pioneers of civilization.Certain politicians can be considered as pioneers of reform.Sappernoun
An officer or private of the Royal Engineers.
Pioneernoun
A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances; a sapper.
Sappernoun
a military engineer who lays or detects and disarms mines
Pioneernoun
A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol.
Sappernoun
a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications)
Pioneernoun
(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.
Pioneerverb
To go before and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.
Pioneernoun
someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art
Pioneernoun
one the first colonists or settler in a new territory;
they went west as pioneers with only the possessions they could carry with themPioneerverb
open up an area or prepare a way;
She pioneered a graduate program for women studentsPioneerverb
take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of;
This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplantsPioneerverb
open up and explore a new area;
pioneer space
