Pioneer vs. Sapper: What's the Difference?

One who ventures into unknown or unclaimed territory to settle.

A military engineer who specializes in sapping and other field fortification activities.

One who opens up new areas of thought, research, or development

A military engineer who lays, detects, and disarms mines.

A soldier who performs construction and demolition work in the field to facilitate troop movements.

Historical term for a combat engineer that is still used in some armies, in other words an engineer or a soldier engaged in attacking, destroying, and circumventing or building fortifications, bridges, and roads; a military engineer active in a combat zone.

A species that is typically among the first to become established in a bare, open, or disturbed area.

An officer or private of the Royal Engineers.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of early settlers

One who saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like.

Leading the way; trailblazing

A military engineer who lays or detects and disarms mines

To venture into (an area) or prepare (a way)

A military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications)

To settle (a region).

To initiate or participate in the development of

To act as a pioneer

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.

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 member of a children’s organization operated by the Communist Party, typically in the second of three stages toward becoming an member of the Party itself.

(transitive) To be the first to do or achieve (something), preparing the way for others to follow.

A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.

One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow; as, pioneers of civilization; pioneers of reform.

To go before, and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.

To take part in the early development of; to break ground in; to invent or originate.

Someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art

One the first colonists or settler in a new territory;

Open up an area or prepare a way;

Take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of;

Open up and explore a new area;