avant-garde
See also: avantgarde and Avantgarde
English
WOTD – 31 January 2012
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French avant-garde (“vanguard”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /æˈvãt.ɡɑː(ɹ)d/, /ˈævn̩t.ɡɑː(ɹ)d/
Noun
avant-garde (plural avant-gardes)
- (obsolete) The vanguard of an army or other force.
- Any group of people who invent or promote new techniques or concepts, especially in the arts.
Synonyms
- (group of people associated with the new): vanguard
Translations
(obsolete) the vanguard of an army or other force
group of people promoting new concepts
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Adjective
avant-garde (comparative more avant-garde, superlative most avant-garde)
- Innovative, pioneering, especially when extremely or obviously so.
- It was a very avant-garde production.
Synonyms
- mistakenly trendy
- (outside the mainstream): underground
- See also Thesaurus:innovation
Translations
innovative, pioneering, especially when extremely or obviously so
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See also
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.vɑ̃.ɡaʁd/
Noun
avant-garde f (plural avant-gardes)
- (military) vanguard
- (figuratively) avant-garde, firing line
Further reading
- “avant-garde” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Noun
avant-garde f (plural avant-gardes)
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