a willingness to endure hardship in order to explore new places or try out new things
America has always retained her pioneering spirit.
the pioneering spirit of the Americans as they pushed and fought their way from theeast to the west coast of their continent
The pioneering spirit of our ancestors took them to many other lands.
Examples of 'pioneer spirit' in a sentence
pioneer spirit
You may be not filled by this latter-day pioneer spirit.
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His pioneer spirit also attracts confl ict.
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Aviation watches couple a pioneer spirit with the control of the pilot.
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We fondly recount the ambition and pioneer spirit of the late 19th-century politicians who sought to make the places they led healthy, safe and prosperous.
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It's the pioneer spirit — the idea that if the people in the next wagon don't rally round to help, nobody will.
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Here they started affecting beards, trapper hats, flannel shirts, gilets and, naturally, the tucked-in-trousers look, possibly as a way of telegraphing their pioneer spirit.