pathfinder

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From path + finder.

I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler. — The Great Gatsby, F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
Roscoe eagerly bridged the difficulty by offering to act as pathfinder. — The Daughter of Anderson Crow, George Barr McCutcheon
You see, our young leaders were only pathfinders, not home makers." — The Young Alaskans on the Missouri, Emerson Hough

scout, guide

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