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avant-garde
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun avant-garde has 1 sense
- avant-garde(n = noun.group) new wave, van, vanguard - any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts); Array is a kind of art movement, artistic movement
Adjective avant-garde has 1 sense
- avant-garde(s = adj.all) daring - radically new or original; "an avant-garde theater piece"
CIDE DICTIONARY
avant-garde, n. [F. avant before + E. guard, F. avant-garde. See Avaunt.].
The most advanced group of people in any field of endeavor, especially in literary and artistic work, usually characterized by new ideas and experimental techniques. [PJC]
avant-garde, a.
- Of, pertaining to, or belonging to the avant-garde. [PJC]
- Characterized by the use of experimental techniques; modern; daring; radical. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
avant-garde, n. & adj.
--n. pioneers or innovators esp. in art and literature.
--adj. (of ideas etc.) new, progressive.
--n. pioneers or innovators esp. in art and literature.
--adj. (of ideas etc.) new, progressive.
Derivative
avant-gardism n. avant-gardist n.
Etymology
F, = vanguard
ROGET THESAURUS
avant-garde
Precursor
N precursor, antecedent, precedent, predecessor, forerunner, vancourier, avant-coureur, pioneer, prodrome, prodromos, prodromus, outrider, leader, bellwether, herald, harbinger, foreboding, dawn, avant-courier, avant-garde, bellmare, forelooper, foreloper, stalking-horse, voorlooper, voortrekker, prelude, preamble, preface, prologue, foreword, avant-propos, protasis, proemium, prolusion, proem, prolepsis, prolegomena, prefix, introduction, heading, frontispiece, groundwork, preparation, overture, exordium, symphony, premises, prefigurement, omen, precursory, prelusive, prelusory, preludious, proemial, introductory, prefatory, prodromous, inaugural, preliminary, precedent, a precedent embalms a principle.
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