avant-garde
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French avant-garde (“vanguard”). Doublet of vanguard and vaward.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /æˈvɑ̃t.ɡɑːd/, /æˈvɑ̃.ɡɑːd/, /ˌæ.vɑ̃ˈɡɑːd/, /ˈæ.vn̩t.ɡɑːd/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌɑˌvɑntˈɡɑɹd/, /əˌvɑntˈɡɑɹd/, /ˌæ.vɑntˈɡɑɹd/, /ˌɑˌvæntˈɡɑɹd/, /əˌvæntˈɡɑɹd/, /ˌɑˌvɑ̃ˈɡɑɹd/, /ˌæˌvɑ̃ˈɡɑɹd/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
avant-garde (plural avant-gardes)
- (obsolete) The vanguard of an army or other force.
- Antonym: arrière-garde
- Any group of people who invent or promote new techniques or concepts, especially in the arts.
- Antonym: arrière-garde
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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.
- 2014, James Dobson, Modesty and Self-Esteem[1]:
- I fear she will pay a heavy price for the avant-garde ideas she has been sold.
Synonyms
- mistakenly trendy
- (outside the mainstream): underground
- See also Thesaurus:innovation
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Derived terms
See also
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑʋɑntˌɡɑrde/, [ˈɑ̝ʋɑ̝n̪t̪ˌɡɑ̝rde̞]
- IPA(key): /ˈɑʋɑn(t)ˌɡɑːr(d)/, [ˈɑ̝ʋɑ̝n(t̪)ˌɡɑ̝ːr(d)]
- Rhymes: -ɑrde
- Syllabification(key): a‧vant‧gar‧de
Noun
avant-garde
- Synonym of avantgardismi.
Declension
Inflection of avant-garde (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | avant-garde | — | |
genitive | avant-garden | — | |
partitive | avant-gardea | — | |
illative | avant-gardeen | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | avant-garde | — | |
accusative | nom. | avant-garde | — |
gen. | avant-garden | ||
genitive | avant-garden | — | |
partitive | avant-gardea | — | |
inessive | avant-gardessa | — | |
elative | avant-gardesta | — | |
illative | avant-gardeen | — | |
adessive | avant-gardella | — | |
ablative | avant-gardelta | — | |
allative | avant-gardelle | — | |
essive | avant-gardena | — | |
translative | avant-gardeksi | — | |
abessive | avant-gardetta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French avantgarde. By surface analysis, avant (“before, in front of”) + garde (“guard”).
Pronunciation
Noun
avant-garde f (plural avant-gardes)
- (military) vanguard [since mid-12th c.]
- Antonym: arrière-garde
- 1879, Alfred Barbou, Les Trois Républiques françaises : Histoire populaire de la République en France [The Three French Republics: People's history of the Republic in France], A. Duquesne:
- Le 11 décembre, les avant-gardes ennemies étaient signalées aux environs de Château-Thierry.
- On December 11, the enemy vanguard was reported in the vicinity of Château-Thierry.
- (figuratively) avant-garde, firing line [since mid-16th c.]
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Danish: avantgarde
- → English: avant-garde
- → German: Avantgarde
- → Korean: 아방가르드 (abanggareudeu)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: avantgarde
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: avantgarde
- → Swedish: avantgarde
- → Turkish: avangart
Further reading
- “avant-garde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French avant-garde.
Noun
avant-garde (plural avant-garde-avant-garde, first-person possessive avant-gardeku, second-person possessive avant-gardemu, third-person possessive avant-gardenya)
- avant-garde: any group of people who invent or promote new techniques or concepts, especially in the arts.
- Synonyms: avant-garde, garda depan, pelopor, perintis
Further reading
- “avant-garde” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Middle French
Noun
avant-garde f (plural avant-gardes)
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