groundbreaker
noun
groundbreaker is a noun meaning “First person to do, make or fight for something. A pioneer; a seminal person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-R-O-U-N-D-B-R-E-A-K-E-R, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of groundbreaker is groundbreakers.
What does groundbreaker mean?
noun
- 1
First person to do, make or fight for something. A pioneer; a seminal person.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of groundbreaker
- groundbreakers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is groundbreaker?
Groundbreaker appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does groundbreaker come from?
From ground + breaker.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).