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The friend who finds the way, then tells everyone else it was easy.
means Someone or something that discovers or blazes a new route or approach that others can then follow.
from A straightforward English compound of 'path' and 'finder,' first tied to frontier scouts and explorers who marked routes through unmapped land — the word later got borrowed for anything that charts a way forward, from spacecraft to software.
- origin
- Term popularized by Fenimore Cooper novel in 1840
- military use
- WWII paratroopers who jumped first to mark drop zones
- nissan model
- SUV named to suggest off-road adventure, mostly carpools
- tabletop rpg
- Pathfinder spun off D&D after a rules dispute in 2008