trailblazer
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trailblazer
- /ˈtɹeɪlbleɪzə/ UK
- /ˈtɹeɪlˌbleɪzəɹ/ US
- /ˈtɹæɪlˌblæɪzə/ Australia
Where it comes from
From trail (noun) + blazer (noun).
noun trailblazers
- One who discovers or makes a new path or way through an untraversed region.
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One who is the first to do something in a particular field; an innovator, a pioneer.
Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.
Similar: groundbreaker, outrider, pathbreaker, roadmaker, trailcutter, trailbreaker, waymaker
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noun one who discovers or makes a new path or way through an untraversed region — see also pathfinder
| Español | pionero, pionera |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 선구자 seon'guja |
| 日本語 | 先駆者 senkusha |
| Português | desbravador |
| Français | pionnier, pionnière |
| Deutsch | Vorreiter, Vorreiterin, Wegbereiter, Wegbereiterin |
| Italiano | pioniere |
| Русский | первопрохо́дец pervoproxódec |
noun one who is the first to do something in a particular field — see also pioneer
| Español | colonizador, colonizadora, colono, colona, pionero, pionera |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 선구자 seon'guja |
| 日本語 | 草分け kusawake, 先駆者 senkusha |
| 中文 | 尖兵 jiānbīng, 排頭兵 /排头兵 páitóubīng, 先驅 /先驱 xiānqū |
| Português | desbravador, pioneiro, pioneira |
| Français | pionnier, pionnière, premier de cordée, visionnaire |
| Deutsch | Pionier, Vorreiter |
| Italiano | apripista, precursore |
| Română | deschizător |
| Русский | нова́тор novátor, первопрохо́дец pervoproxódec, пионе́р pionér, пионе́рка pionérka |
Talk about this word "trailblazer." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/trailblazer. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. trailblazer. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/trailblazer "trailblazer." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/trailblazer.Cite this
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title = {trailblazer},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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