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Avant-garde   /əvˈɑntgˈɑrd/  /əvˈɑngˈɑrd/   Listen
noun
avant-garde  n.  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.



adjective
avant-garde  adj.  
1.
Of, pertaining to, or belonging to the avant-garde.
2.
Characterized by the use of experimental techniques; modern; daring; radical.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Avant-garde" Quotes from Famous Books



... precursor, antecedent, precedent, predecessor; forerunner, vancourier[obs3], avant-coureur[Fr], pioneer, prodrome|, prodromos[obs3], prodromus[obs3], outrider; leader, bellwether; herald, harbinger; foreboding; dawn; avant-courier, avant-garde, bellmare[obs3], forelooper[obs3], foreloper[obs3], stalking-horse, voorlooper[Afrikaans], voortrekker[Afrikaans]. prelude, preamble, preface, prologue, foreword, avant-propos[Fr], protasis[obs3], proemium[obs3], prolusion[obs3], proem, prolepsis[Gram], prolegomena, ...
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