dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/pio_MW.json

{
  "pioneer":{
    "antonyms":[
      "begin",
      "constitute",
      "establish",
      "found",
      "inaugurate",
      "initiate",
      "innovate",
      "institute",
      "introduce",
      "launch",
      "plant",
      "set up",
      "start"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a member of a military unit usually of construction engineers":[],
      ": a person or group that originates or helps open up a new line of thought or activity or a new method or technical development":[],
      ": a plant or animal capable of establishing itself in a bare, barren, or open area and initiating an ecological cycle":[],
      ": one of the first to settle in a territory":[],
      ": original , earliest":[],
      ": to act as a pioneer":[
        "pioneered in the development of airplanes"
      ],
      ": to originate or take part in the development of":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "the pioneers who settled in the American West in the 19th century",
      "the hardships that the pioneers endured while taming the wilderness",
      "Verb",
      "a painter who pioneered a new art form",
      "The new method of cancer treatment was pioneered by an international team of researchers.",
      "He helped pioneer a new route to the West.",
      "He pioneered in the development of airplanes.",
      "Adjective",
      "the nation's pioneer institution for the education of African-Americans",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Norman Giller, who died in 2008, was a pioneer of Miami Modernism, a regional style of architecture that emerged in the post-World War II era. \u2014 Sergio Carmona, Sun Sentinel , 10 June 2022",
      "The German producer was a pioneer of international co-productions and helped such international auteurs as Aki Kaurismaki, Olivier Assayas, Emir Kusturica and Kim Ki-duk get their movies made. \u2014 Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter , 10 June 2022",
      "Along with Twenty Tap, Fat Dan\u2019s Deli and The Jazz Kitchen steps away, The Bulldog is set to up the bar and dining factor in the area in which its predecessor had been a pioneer . \u2014 Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star , 9 June 2022",
      "While Redbox was a pioneer , its business never really took off. \u2014 Scott Nover, Quartz , 24 May 2022",
      "Priesand had wanted to be a teacher and ended up being a pioneer . \u2014 Jeff Suess, The Enquirer , 17 May 2022",
      "The lovers never reunited, but their daughter, Ine, was a pioneer . \u2014 Rob Goss, Smithsonian Magazine , 13 May 2022",
      "To be a pioneer of my own sounds and to learn about my fans and myself through this journey. \u2014 Spin Staff, SPIN , 12 May 2022",
      "Dylan had been an early acolyte of Guthrie, who was a pioneer of American folk music. \u2014 Annie Gowen, Anchorage Daily News , 6 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Issaoun, an observational astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard & Smithsonian and a member of the black hole-imaging Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, helped pioneer new technology to discover what happens near a black hole. \u2014 Curtis Silver, Forbes , 6 May 2022",
      "The dinner had other serious moments, with tributes to pioneer journalists of color, aspiring student reporters as well as a dedication to the journalists detained, injured or killed during the coverage of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. \u2014 Farnoush Amiri And Will Weissert, Chron , 2 May 2022",
      "In 2020, the group teamed up with Mercer University to bring back Capricorn Sound Studios, where artists can use original analog equipment while channeling Duane Allman, or pioneer something new, amid the shag carpeting and groovy, psychedelic art. \u2014 Candice Dyer, ajc , 2 May 2022",
      "The dinner had other serious moments, with tributes to pioneer journalists of color, aspiring student reporters as well as a dedication to the journalists detained, injured or killed during the coverage of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. \u2014 Will Weissert, Fortune , 1 May 2022",
      "The dinner had other serious moments, with tributes to pioneer journalists of color, aspiring student reporters as well as a dedication to the journalists detained, injured or killed during the coverage of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. \u2014 CBS News , 30 Apr. 2022",
      "Vanguard helped pioneer the rise of passive investing through low-cost index funds. \u2014 Dawn Lim, WSJ , 11 Oct. 2021",
      "Robert Dooling of the University of Maryland helped to pioneer the study of fine structure in birdsong. \u2014 Adam Fishbein, Scientific American , 1 May 2022",
      "And it\u2019s a gender-norm-flouting movement that Fleetwood and his peers helped pioneer in the late \u201960s and \u201970s. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1523, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "1780, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
      "1836, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle French pionier , from Old French peonier foot soldier, from peon foot soldier, from Medieval Latin pedon-, pedo \u2014 more at pawn":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccp\u012b-\u0259-\u02c8nir"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "colonial",
      "colonist",
      "colonizer",
      "frontiersman",
      "homesteader",
      "settler"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-034942",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "pious":{
    "antonyms":[
      "disloyal",
      "faithless",
      "false",
      "fickle",
      "inconstant",
      "perfidious",
      "recreant",
      "traitorous",
      "treacherous",
      "unfaithful",
      "untrue"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": deserving commendation : worthy":[
        "a pious effort"
      ],
      ": marked by conspicuous religiosity":[
        "a hypocrite\u2014a thing all pious words and uncharitable deeds",
        "\u2014 Charles Reade"
      ],
      ": marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship":[],
      ": marked by self-conscious virtue : virtuous":[],
      ": marked by sham or hypocrisy":[],
      ": sacred or devotional as distinct from the profane or secular : religious":[
        "a pious opinion"
      ],
      ": showing loyal reverence for a person or thing : dutiful":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "We must ask to what extent, and at however unconscious a level, a conflict arises in the pious political mind when it is sworn to uphold the civil religion of the Constitution. \u2014 E. L. Doctorow , Free Inquiry , October/November 2008",
      "But our problem is the lack of any shared or coherent attitude toward the rest of the world, without which, as Judt acknowledges, Europe exists in pieces, an outsize Switzerland held together by nothing more solid than pious sentiment. \u2014 Nicholas Fraser , Harper's , May 2006",
      "The other side of the masonry block was covered with a web of ancient graffiti, she said, left by pious visitors to the tomb. \u2014 Tom Mueller , Atlantic , October 2003",
      "The news offered so many occasions for pious or ribald commentary that any chance of agreement about what any of it meant was lost in a vast din of clucking and sniggering. \u2014 Lewis H. Lapham , Harper's , August 1997",
      "Japanese schools have another eccentricity, which is the pious , Sunday-school-like enthusiasm of students and teachers alike for education about values. Teachers sometimes sound so saccharine that they would make Mr. Rogers look like a cynic. \u2014 Nicholas D. Kristof , New York Times Magazine , 17 Aug. 1997",
      "They lived a quiet, pious life.",
      "I'm tired of hearing politicians making pious pronouncements about their devotion to the people.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Ferdinand\u2019s life in recovery is spent in occasional erections, unending pain, and grimacing irony at the attempts at pious reassurance from the doctors who have received him to treat him before he is sent to London for recovery. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 15 June 2022",
      "The tenor here feels pious , as though somehow the whole process has reverted to the religious origins of incarceration. \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
      "Far from shutting down those protests, Trudeau actually participated in them, making a pious spectacle out of himself. \u2014 Kevin D. Williamson, National Review , 16 Feb. 2022",
      "Religious practice is simultaneously at the heart of this book and a surface phenomenon: in the West, a pious varnish on imperialist prejudices, or in the East, a state of false consciousness that blinds believers to their own subjugation. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Jan. 2022",
      "Jonathan Franzen delivered a pious page-turner, Spider-Man saved the COVID-19-stricken box office, and Adele gave us a whole new album of breakup ballads to weep over. \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY , 4 Jan. 2022",
      "An earnest and pious honors graduate of New England\u2019s prestigious Dartmouth College, the 18-year-old cut a fine figure. \u2014 Peter Cozzens, WSJ , 18 Feb. 2022",
      "The air of pious condemnation that suddenly fills the air is both shocking and sadly familiar. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 Feb. 2022",
      "Under the Banner of Heaven (which will stream on Hulu) asks some very hard questions of its own, starting as a gripping murder mystery set in a seemingly pious , quiet Mormon community. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 25 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Latin pius":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8p\u012b-\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "constant",
      "dedicated",
      "devoted",
      "devout",
      "down-the-line",
      "faithful",
      "fast",
      "good",
      "loyal",
      "staunch",
      "stanch",
      "steadfast",
      "steady",
      "true",
      "true-blue"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-234842",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "piousness":{
    "antonyms":[
      "disloyal",
      "faithless",
      "false",
      "fickle",
      "inconstant",
      "perfidious",
      "recreant",
      "traitorous",
      "treacherous",
      "unfaithful",
      "untrue"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": deserving commendation : worthy":[
        "a pious effort"
      ],
      ": marked by conspicuous religiosity":[
        "a hypocrite\u2014a thing all pious words and uncharitable deeds",
        "\u2014 Charles Reade"
      ],
      ": marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship":[],
      ": marked by self-conscious virtue : virtuous":[],
      ": marked by sham or hypocrisy":[],
      ": sacred or devotional as distinct from the profane or secular : religious":[
        "a pious opinion"
      ],
      ": showing loyal reverence for a person or thing : dutiful":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "We must ask to what extent, and at however unconscious a level, a conflict arises in the pious political mind when it is sworn to uphold the civil religion of the Constitution. \u2014 E. L. Doctorow , Free Inquiry , October/November 2008",
      "But our problem is the lack of any shared or coherent attitude toward the rest of the world, without which, as Judt acknowledges, Europe exists in pieces, an outsize Switzerland held together by nothing more solid than pious sentiment. \u2014 Nicholas Fraser , Harper's , May 2006",
      "The other side of the masonry block was covered with a web of ancient graffiti, she said, left by pious visitors to the tomb. \u2014 Tom Mueller , Atlantic , October 2003",
      "The news offered so many occasions for pious or ribald commentary that any chance of agreement about what any of it meant was lost in a vast din of clucking and sniggering. \u2014 Lewis H. Lapham , Harper's , August 1997",
      "Japanese schools have another eccentricity, which is the pious , Sunday-school-like enthusiasm of students and teachers alike for education about values. Teachers sometimes sound so saccharine that they would make Mr. Rogers look like a cynic. \u2014 Nicholas D. Kristof , New York Times Magazine , 17 Aug. 1997",
      "They lived a quiet, pious life.",
      "I'm tired of hearing politicians making pious pronouncements about their devotion to the people.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Ferdinand\u2019s life in recovery is spent in occasional erections, unending pain, and grimacing irony at the attempts at pious reassurance from the doctors who have received him to treat him before he is sent to London for recovery. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 15 June 2022",
      "The tenor here feels pious , as though somehow the whole process has reverted to the religious origins of incarceration. \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
      "Far from shutting down those protests, Trudeau actually participated in them, making a pious spectacle out of himself. \u2014 Kevin D. Williamson, National Review , 16 Feb. 2022",
      "Religious practice is simultaneously at the heart of this book and a surface phenomenon: in the West, a pious varnish on imperialist prejudices, or in the East, a state of false consciousness that blinds believers to their own subjugation. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Jan. 2022",
      "Jonathan Franzen delivered a pious page-turner, Spider-Man saved the COVID-19-stricken box office, and Adele gave us a whole new album of breakup ballads to weep over. \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY , 4 Jan. 2022",
      "An earnest and pious honors graduate of New England\u2019s prestigious Dartmouth College, the 18-year-old cut a fine figure. \u2014 Peter Cozzens, WSJ , 18 Feb. 2022",
      "The air of pious condemnation that suddenly fills the air is both shocking and sadly familiar. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 Feb. 2022",
      "Under the Banner of Heaven (which will stream on Hulu) asks some very hard questions of its own, starting as a gripping murder mystery set in a seemingly pious , quiet Mormon community. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 25 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Latin pius":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8p\u012b-\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "constant",
      "dedicated",
      "devoted",
      "devout",
      "down-the-line",
      "faithful",
      "fast",
      "good",
      "loyal",
      "staunch",
      "stanch",
      "steadfast",
      "steady",
      "true",
      "true-blue"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-111854",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  }
}