Feminine

avant-garde

Meaning

  1. (feminine) vanguard
  2. (feminine, figuratively) avant-garde, firing line
  3. (Marxism, feminine) vanguard, the most politicized and conscious part of the proletariat.

Opposite of
arrière-garde
Translations

πρωτοπορία

αβάν-γκαρντ

εμπροσθοφυλακή

aanvalsspits

Frequency

20k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/a.vɑ̃.ɡaʁd/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old French avantgarde. By surface analysis, avant (“before, in front of”) + garde (“guard”).

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