Dictionary

pacesetter en · NOUN

Etymology

From pace + setter.

Meanings

1. One who or that which determines the rate of action through leading.
   • It’s all been a dreadful embarrassment, but why should anyone outside Germany be concerned? Because Documenta was always a pacesetter — and this year’s edition certainly put its finger on a larger shift, seen too in our museums, our art schools and our magazines, away from aesthetic ambition and intellectual seriousness and toward the easier comforts of togetherness, advocacy and fun. 2022 September 23, Jason Farago, “The World’s Most Prestigious Art Exhibition Is Over. Maybe Forever.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Forms

Coordinates

trendsetter · pacemaker

Relateds

take up the running · bring up the rear

Translations (6)

cmn 配速員 /配速员 (one who sets pace) · pl zając (one who sets pace) · de Schrittmacher (one who sets pace) · it battistrada (one who sets pace) · fi kirittäjä (one who sets pace) · tr tavşan atlet (one who sets pace)