avant-garde

• aduant garde
• avantgarde

Borrowed from French avant-garde (“vanguard”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /æˈvɑ̃t.ɡɑːd/, /æˈvɑ̃.ɡɑːd/, /ˌæ.vɑ̃ˈɡɑːd/, /ˈæ.vn̩t.ɡɑːd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɑˌvɑntˈɡɑɹd/, /əˌvɑntˈɡɑɹd/, /ˌæ.vɑntˈɡɑɹd/, /ˌɑˌvæntˈɡɑɹd/, /əˌvæntˈɡɑɹd/, /ˌɑˌvɑ̃ˈɡɑɹd/, /ˌæˌvɑ̃ˈɡɑɹd/

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avant-garde (plural avant-gardes)

1. (obsolete) The vanguard of an army or other force.
2. Any group of people who invent or promote new techniques or concepts, especially in the arts.

• (group of people associated with the new): vanguard

avant-garde (comparative more avant-garde, superlative most avant-garde)

1. Innovative, pioneering, especially when extremely or obviously so.

   • It was a very avant-garde production.

   • 2014, James Dobson, "Modesty and Self-Esteem"

     I fear she will pay a heavy price for the avant-garde ideas she has been sold.

• mistakenly trendy
• (outside the mainstream): underground
• See also Thesaurus:innovation

• leading edge

avant (“before, in front of”) +‎ garde (“guard”).

• IPA^(key): /a.vɑ̃.ɡaʁd/

avant-garde f (plural avant-gardes)

1. (military) vanguard
2. (figuratively) avant-garde, firing line

• avant-gardiste
• avant-gardisme

• “avant-garde” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

avant-garde f (plural avant-gardes)

1. (military) vanguard