"Pioneer" meaning in English

See Pioneer in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Pioneer
  1. A census-designated place in Amador County, California, United States. Categories (place): Census-designated places in California, USA, Census-designated places in the United States, Places in California, USA, Places in the United States
    Sense id: en-Pioneer-en-name-~NEfsR0M
  2. A planning area in the West Region of Singapore. Categories (place): Places in Singapore
    Sense id: en-Pioneer-en-name-8QtQV7T3

Noun

Forms: Pioneers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} Pioneer (plural Pioneers)
  1. (Singapore) A person born on or before 31 December 1949 and possessing Singapore citizenship on or before 31 December 1986, given this status and certain benefits to recognise their contributions to Singapore's early development. Tags: Singapore
    Sense id: en-Pioneer-en-noun-5QD-DF6y Categories (other): Singapore English, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for Pioneer meaning in English (3.8kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Pioneers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Pioneer (plural Pioneers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Singapore English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Zanzibar [pseudonym], soc.culture.singapore (Usenet)",
          "text": "Now they are trying hard, working hard, in trying to \"give back\" […] to the older people classified as \"pioneer generations\" […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 March 15, Jeffrey Law Lee Beng, “Saving water is everyone’s moral duty”, in Today, Singapore: Mediacorp Press, →OCLC, page 40",
          "text": "As someone from the Pioneer Generation, I have experienced much hardship […] from the scourge of water-rationing in the 1960s […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person born on or before 31 December 1949 and possessing Singapore citizenship on or before 31 December 1986, given this status and certain benefits to recognise their contributions to Singapore's early development."
      ],
      "id": "en-Pioneer-en-noun-5QD-DF6y",
      "links": [
        [
          "citizenship",
          "citizenship"
        ],
        [
          "status",
          "status"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Singapore) A person born on or before 31 December 1949 and possessing Singapore citizenship on or before 31 December 1986, given this status and certain benefits to recognise their contributions to Singapore's early development."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Singapore"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Pioneer"
}

{
  "categories": [],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Pioneer",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Census-designated places in California, USA",
          "orig": "en:Census-designated places in California, USA",
          "parents": [
            "Census-designated places",
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Census-designated places in the United States",
          "orig": "en:Census-designated places in the United States",
          "parents": [
            "Census-designated places",
            "Places",
            "United States",
            "Names",
            "North America",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "America",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Earth",
            "Lemmas",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in California, USA",
          "orig": "en:Places in California, USA",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in the United States",
          "orig": "en:Places in the United States",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A census-designated place in Amador County, California, United States."
      ],
      "id": "en-Pioneer-en-name-~NEfsR0M",
      "links": [
        [
          "census-designated place",
          "census-designated place"
        ],
        [
          "Amador County",
          "Amador County#English"
        ],
        [
          "California",
          "California#English"
        ],
        [
          "United States",
          "United States#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in Singapore",
          "orig": "en:Places in Singapore",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A planning area in the West Region of Singapore."
      ],
      "id": "en-Pioneer-en-name-8QtQV7T3",
      "links": [
        [
          "planning area",
          "planning area"
        ],
        [
          "Singapore",
          "Singapore#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Pioneer"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Pioneers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Pioneer (plural Pioneers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Singapore English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Zanzibar [pseudonym], soc.culture.singapore (Usenet)",
          "text": "Now they are trying hard, working hard, in trying to \"give back\" […] to the older people classified as \"pioneer generations\" […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 March 15, Jeffrey Law Lee Beng, “Saving water is everyone’s moral duty”, in Today, Singapore: Mediacorp Press, →OCLC, page 40",
          "text": "As someone from the Pioneer Generation, I have experienced much hardship […] from the scourge of water-rationing in the 1960s […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person born on or before 31 December 1949 and possessing Singapore citizenship on or before 31 December 1986, given this status and certain benefits to recognise their contributions to Singapore's early development."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "citizenship",
          "citizenship"
        ],
        [
          "status",
          "status"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Singapore) A person born on or before 31 December 1949 and possessing Singapore citizenship on or before 31 December 1986, given this status and certain benefits to recognise their contributions to Singapore's early development."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Singapore"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Pioneer"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Pioneer",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Census-designated places in California, USA",
        "en:Census-designated places in the United States",
        "en:Places in California, USA",
        "en:Places in the United States"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A census-designated place in Amador County, California, United States."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "census-designated place",
          "census-designated place"
        ],
        [
          "Amador County",
          "Amador County#English"
        ],
        [
          "California",
          "California#English"
        ],
        [
          "United States",
          "United States#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Places in Singapore"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A planning area in the West Region of Singapore."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "planning area",
          "planning area"
        ],
        [
          "Singapore",
          "Singapore#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Pioneer"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-01 using wiktextract (0b52755 and 5cb0836). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.