pioneers
Groundbreakers in fields
Pioneers are people who venture into new territory before others.
Early American pioneers settled the frontier.
By extension, pioneers in any field are the first to explore or develop something: pioneers of aviation, pioneers of jazz.
The verb means to be among the first: She pioneered new surgical techniques.
A pioneer spirit suggests boldness and willingness to face the unknown.
Those who open territory
- groundbreakersInnovators who start trends
- visionariesThose who anticipate change
- inventorsCreators of new devices
- pathfindersThose who discover routes
revolutionaries · disruptors · entrepreneurs · originators · creators · trendsetters · vanguards · game-changers
Land-claiming rural settlers
- colonistsSettlers in new territory
- frontiersmenSettlers of unsettled land
- prairieOpen grassy flatland
- westwardToward the sunset
expedition · territory · trappers · explorers · gold-rush · pilgrims · frontier · wilderness
trailblazers
Those who open territory
- groundbreakersInnovators who start trends
- visionariesThose who anticipate change
- inventorsCreators of new devices
pathfinders · revolutionaries · disruptors · entrepreneurs · originators · creators · trendsetters · vanguards · game-changers · futurists
homesteaders
Land-claiming rural settlers
- colonistsSettlers in new territory
- frontiersmenSettlers of unsettled land
- prairieOpen grassy flatland
westward · expedition · territory · trappers · explorers · gold-rush · pilgrims · frontier · wilderness · hardship
- Americanspresidents, senators, governors, generals, authors
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
- social studiescivics, social studies, maps, economics, community
- 1800s AmericaOregon Trail, Trail of Tears, transcontinental railroad, Civil War, Abraham Lincoln
- Americas HistoryAmerican Revolution, Aztec Empire, colonial era, colonization, Columbus
- notable womenRosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Florence Nightingale, Susan B. Anthony
pioneersfollowers
People who support someone
imitators · copycats · laggards · latecomers · traditionalists
pioneerslatecomers
Those arriving past time
natives · indigenous people · original inhabitants · settlers · old-timers
pioneerstraditionalists
Upholders of established customs
conformists · conservatives · stick-in-the-muds · reactionaries · old guard
- pioneer lifeEarly settler's rugged existence
- pioneer spiritBoldness of early settlers
- pioneering spiritBoldness to explore uncharted territory
- American pioneersEarly westward settlers
- pioneer womenEarly female settlers
- pioneer wagonCovered cart for settlers