Pioneer - Definition and Overview

• Pioneer is a company that produces consumer electronics, notably car stereos.
• Pioneer is a series of space probes from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; see Pioneer program.
• Pioneer is the name of the first space probe from NASA's Pioneer program.
• A pioneer is someone who is first at doing something, or someone who is among a group of such people.
• Pioneer settlers founded colonies in the New World, most notably in the American Old West. They are stock characters in Western movies, often depicted driving covered wagons in wagon trains on the Midwest's Great Plains.
• Pioneers were members of socialist youth movements - see pioneer movement
• Pioneer Island is part of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago in the Kara Sea, north of Russia
• Mormon Pioneer is the term for the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who crossed the Great Plains of The United States.
• Pioneer is a term used for a type of soldier, related to a combat engineer.
• In Ireland, a Pioneer is a member of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association.