different between ambassador vs pioneer

English

Alternative forms

• ambassadour (obsolete)
• embassador (archaic)
• embassadour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English ambassadore, from Anglo-Norman ambassadeur, ambassateur, from Old Italian ambassatore, ambassadore, from Old Occitan ambaisador (“ambassador”), derivative of ambaissa (“service, mission, errand”), from Medieval Latin ambasiator, from Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (andbahti, “service, function”), from Proto-Germanic *ambahtij? (“service, office”), derivative of Proto-Germanic *ambahtaz (“servant”), from Gaulish ambaxtos ("servant"; also the source of Latin ambactus (“vassal, servant, dependent”)), from Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos (“servant”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?m?b?i-h?e?- (“drive around”), from *h?m?b?i- (“around”) + *h?e?- (“to drive”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /æm?bæs.?.d?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /æm?bæs.?.d?/, /æm?bæs.??d??/

Noun

ambassador (plural ambassadors)

1. A minister of the highest rank sent to a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country. (Sometimes called ambassador-in-residence)
2. An official messenger and representative.
3. A corporate representative, often the public face of the company.

   As front hall porter, you are an ambassador for the hotel.

Usage notes

• In English the preferred construction is (Nationality) ambassador to (Country) (the French ambassador to the United States) or ambassador of (Sending Country) to (Receiving Country) (the ambassador of France to the United States).

Derived terms

Related terms

• embassy

Translations

See also

• consul
• high commissioner

English

Etymology

From Middle French pionnier (“originally, a foot soldier”), Old French peonier, from peon (“a foot soldier”) (modern French: pion). See pawn in chess.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa???n???/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

pioneer (plural pioneers)

1. One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.
2. 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.

3. (obsolete, military) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances; a sapper.
4. A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol.
5. (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.

Derived terms

• pioneer axon
• Pioneer Day

Translations

See also

• Pioneer movement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

pioneer (third-person singular simple present pioneers, present participle pioneering, simple past and past participle pioneered)

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

   The young doctor pioneered a new life-saving surgical technique.

Synonyms

• push the envelope
• break new ground

Anagrams

• pereion, perineo-, peronei