[
  {
    "word": "pioneer",
    "phonetic": "/\u02ccpa\u026a\u0259\u02c8n\u026a\u0259\u0279/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u02ccpa\u026a\u0259\u02c8n\u026a\u0259\u0279/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/pioneer-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2651301",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Certain politicians can be considered as pioneers of reform."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances; a sapper.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A child of 10\u201316 years in the former Soviet Union, in the second of the three stages in becoming a member of the Communist Party.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To be the first to do or achieve (something), preparing the way for others to follow.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The young doctor pioneered a new life-saving surgical technique."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "break new ground",
          "push the envelope"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pioneer"
    ]
  }
]