origin of the word pioneer??

Question

plz dont give me some weird link, or some weird phrase that's hard to decipher. just tell me straight out. thx!

Answer 1

You really need to do your own homework. You can find word origins in the dictionary.

Answer 2

Origin: 1817
America did not have pioneers until the nineteenth century. Or rather, for the first two centuries of English-speaking North America.In England, and in the American colonies, pioneer was a military term.
In the nineteenth-century writer applied the word pioneers to the early land-clearing settlers in a new region, it caught on. Timothy Dwight, writing about his travels in 1817, said, "A considerable part of those, who begin the cultivation of the wilderness, may be denominated foresters, or Pioneers."

Answer 3

Pioneer-- is derived from the french word for foot soldier....a soldier who's task was to prepare the way for the main body of troops marching to a new area.

then the word came to apply to anyone who ventures into an unknown region

10 pts for me!!

Answer 4

1523, "foot soldier who prepares the way for the army," from M.Fr. pionnier, from O.Fr. paonier "foot soldier" (11c.), from peon (see pawn (2)). Fig. sense of "person who goes first or does something first" is from 1605. The verb is first recorded 1780.