different between founding vs pioneer

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa?nd??/
• Rhymes: -a?nd??

Verb

founding

1. present participle of found

Noun

founding (plural foundings)

1. The establishment of something.

   the founding of the republic

   • 2005, Donatella Della Porta, Sidney G. Tarrow, Transnational Protest and Global Activism

     Do foundings of transnational organizations appear to spur foundings of national organizations, or vice versa?

Translations

Adjective

founding (not comparable)

1. Who or that founds or found.

   The founding fathers of our country.

Translations

Anagrams

• fonduing

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