Avant-garde Definition
ävänt-gärd, ăvänt-
noun
A group that creates or promotes innovative ideas or techniques in a given field, especially in the arts.
American Heritage
The leading position or persons in new or unconventional movements, esp. in the arts; vanguard.
Webster's New World
Alternative form of avant-garde.
Wiktionary
Any group of people who invent or promote new techniques or concepts, especially in the arts.
Wiktionary
adjective
Of, relating to, or being part of an innovative group, especially one in the arts.
Avant-garde painters; an avant-garde theater piece.
American Heritage
Of such movements, ideas, etc.
Webster's New World
Innovative, pioneering, especially when extremely or obviously so.
It was a very avant-garde production.
Wiktionary
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Origin of Avant-garde
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Borrowing from French avant-garde (“vanguard”)
From Wiktionary
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French from Old French vanguard vanguard
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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