groundbreakers
nounUK /ˈɡraʊndˌbreɪkəz/
US /ˈɡraʊndˌbreɪkərz/
People who do something new that no one has done before.
The Wright brothers were groundbreakers in flight.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. Tools or machines used to break up the ground for planting or building.
The workers used groundbreakers to loosen the hard soil.
3. The first people to start a new project or idea.
These groundbreakers began the school's first science club.
4. Things that open up a new area of knowledge or activity.
Their experiments were true groundbreakers in medicine.