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(ævɒŋ gɑːʳd) also avant garde
1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
Avant-garde art, music, theatre, and literature is very modern and experimental.
...avant-garde concert music.
Synonyms: progressive, pioneering, way-out [informal], experimental More Synonyms of avant-garde
Avant-garde is also a noun.
He was an enthusiast for the avant-garde.
2. singular noun [the NOUN]
You can refer to the artists, writers, and musicians who introduce new and very modern ideas as the avant-garde.
In Paris he made friends among the avant-garde.

avant-garde in British English

(ˌævɒŋˈɡɑːd, French avɑ̃ɡard)
noun
1. 
those artists, writers, musicians, etc, whose techniques and ideas are markedly experimental or in advance of those generally accepted
adjective
2. 
of such artists, etc, their ideas, or their techniques
3. 
radical; daring
Derived forms
avant-gardism (ˌavant-ˈgardism)
noun
avant-gardist (ˌavant-ˈgardist)
noun
Word origin
from French: vanguard

avant-garde in American English

(əˌvɑntˈgɑrd; ˌ ɑˌvɑntˈgɑrd; ˌ æˌvɑntˈgɑrd; French avɑ̃ˈgaʀd)
noun
1. 
the leaders in new or unconventional movements, esp. in the arts; vanguard
adjective
2. 
of such movements, ideas, etc.
Derived forms
avant-gardism (aˌvant-ˈgardˌism)
noun
avant-gardist (aˌvant-ˈgardist)
noun
Word origin
Fr, lit., advance guard

Examples of 'avant-garde' in a sentence
avant-garde

So avant-garde musicians naturally line up with the dissidents.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
It charts how a politically avant-garde movement turned into a commercial style that still influences designers today.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
For the audience it began as an exercise in avant-garde arts and crafts.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
But what is new about young designers experimenting with avant-garde shapes?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
They were an irrelevance to the thrusting, spitting avant-garde artist.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
An exploration of work of the Polish avant-garde performance artist.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
He relished the plays performed in the city's two avant-garde theatres.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
In this sense, avant-garde sound art is already filtering into our lives unnoticed.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Fashion designs spanning 15 years of experimental projects by the avant-garde designer.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
You have to make another new, avant-garde thing.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It is experimental without being avant-garde - but can this be right?
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
I wanted to do accessible music, not avant-garde pieces.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)

In other languages
avant-garde

British English: avant-garde ADJECTIVE
Avant-garde art, music, theatre, and literature is very modern and experimental.
...avant-garde concert music.
  • American English: avant-garde
  • Brazilian Portuguese: de vanguarda
  • Chinese: 前卫的
  • European Spanish: de vanguardia
  • French: d'avant-garde
  • German: avantgardistisch
  • Italian: d'avanguardia
  • Japanese: 前衛的な
  • Korean: 아방가르드의
  • European Portuguese: de vanguarda
  • Latin American Spanish: de vanguardia
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