Vanguard

Definitions: Vanguard

Vanguard

Noun

1. The leading units moving at the head of an army.

2. Artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time.

3. The position of greatest advancement; the leading position in any movement or field.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "vanguard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Vanguard \Van"guard`\, noun. [For vantguard, avantguard, French avant-garde; avant before, fore garde guard. See Avant, Ab-, Ante-, and Guard, and compare to Advance, Vamp, Van of an army, Vaward.]. (Websters 1913)

VANGUARD

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Vanguard

Front

Fore rank, front rank; van, vanguard; advanced guard; outpost; first line; scout.

Precedence

Verb: precede; come before, come first; head, lead, take the lead; lead the way, lead the dance; be in the vanguard; introduce, usher in; have the pas; set the fashion; (influence); open the ball; take precedence, have precedence; have the start; (get before).

Crosswords: Vanguard

References

• American Vanguard Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Vanguard International Semiconductor Corp.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Texas Vanguard Oil Company: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Character Counts : The Creation and Building of the Vanguard Group (reference)

• Live at the Village Vanguard (Da Capo Paperback) (reference)

• M26/M46 Pershing Tank 1943-53 (New Vanguard, 35) (reference)

• M3 & M5 Stuart Light Tank 1940-1945 (New Vanguard Series, 33) (reference)

• Medieval Siege Weapons: Western Europe Ad 585-1385 (New Vanguard, 58) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Christian Vanguard (reference)

• Valdez Vanguard (reference)

• Vanguard (reference)

• Vanguard Chronicle (reference)

• Workers Vanguard (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Opening Night: Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band at the Village Vanguard February 7, 1966 [LIVE] (reference)

• Sunday at the Village Vanguard (20 Bit Mastering) [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

• At the Village Vanguard (Spec Packaging) [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Vanguard Bandits (reference)

• Vanguard Hard-Sided Blacl/Metal Gray Computer Case 17X12.6X3 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

[Ralph Goldman] / P.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Vanguard Photography..

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

His vanguard was very weak, and could do nothing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Estonia

This heightened media environment was important in preparing Estonians for their vanguard role in extending perestroika during the Gorbachev era. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "vanguard": in the vanguard. Additional references.

Beginning with "vanguard": vanguard-class.

Ending with "vanguard": pro-vanguard.

Albanian

pararojë (advance, advance guard, avant garde, pilot, Van), avangardë (advance guard, avant garde). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقدمة (advance guard, fore, foreword, headlong, introduction, preamble, preface, prelude, premise, proem), ‏طليعة حركة ما, ‏طليعة الجيش (van). (various references)

Bulgarian 

авангарден (advanced guard), авангард (advance guard, avant garde, spearhead). (various references)

Chinese 

先�"�. (various references)

Czech

předvoj (advance guard, Van), avantgarda (avant garde), èelo (brow, coalface, forehead, front, head, headboard). (various references)

Farsi 

پیشقرال , پیشتاز, پیش لشگر, جلودار (Front, Harbinger, Herald, Van). (various references)

Finnish

kärkijoukko. (various references)

French

avant-garde (Van). (various references)

German

Vorhut (Van). (various references)

Greek 

πρωτοπορεία, εμπροσθοφυλακή. (various references)

Hebrew 

משמר �"מאסף, חיל �"חלוץ (avant garde), חלוץ (jib, pathfinder, pioneer). (various references)

Hungarian

elõõrs (outpost, picket, Van), élcsapat (advance party, van, vanguard detachment). (various references)

Italian

avanguardia (avant garde, forefront, spearhead, Van). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

前駆 (forerunner, leader, precursor), 前衛 (advance guard), 先陣 (advance guard), 先遣部隊 (advance troops), 先� � (first, head, lead), 先登 (first, head, lead), 先端 (advanced, cusp, fine point, leading edge, pointed end, spearhead, tip), 先手 (black player, forestalling, front lines, initiative, the first move), 先兵 , 先導者 (bellwether), 尖端 (advanced, cusp, fine point, leading edge, pointed end, spearhead, tip), 尖兵 (advance detachment, advance-guard point), 一陣 (a gust of wind). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぜ�"えい (advance guard), ぜ�"く (forerunner, leader, precursor, the whole body), さきて (front lines), せ�"た�" (advanced, cusp, fine point, leading edge, opening of hostilities, pointed end, sorting of coal, spearhead, the elixir, tip), せ�"ぺい (advance detachment, advance-guard point), せ�"どうしゃ (agitator, bellwether), せ�"け�"ぶたい (advance troops), せ�"じ�" (advance guard, ancestor, battle array or formation, battle dust, battlefield, bottomless, great depth, great height, pioneer, predecessor, the tumult of war, thousand fathoms), せ�"とう (bath-house, battle, combat, cusp, fight, first, head, lead, pinnacle, point, pointed end, public bath, punch, scissors, ship's lamp, spire, starting pitcher, steeple, trampling down), いちじ�" (a gust of wind). (various references)

Korean 

� 봉. (various references)

Manx

toshiaght (beginning, bow, bow of ship, captain, captain of team, commencement, curtain-raiser, dawn, dawning, fore, forefront, forepart, forestalling, genesis, getaway, inception, initiation, lead, opening, origin, outset, preliminary, start, stem, threshold, threshold of pain etc). (various references)

Pig Latin

anguardvay.(various references)

Portuguese

vanguarda (avant garde, battlefront, front, frontage, head, Van). (various references)

Romanian

avangardã (advance guard, Van). (various references)

Russian 

головной отряд, авангард (advance guard, advance-guard, avant garde, avante-garde, forefront). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

predhodnica, avangarda (advance guard, advanced guard). (various references)

Spanish

vanguardia (advance guard, avant garde, forefront, spearhead). (various references)

Swedish

tät (close, compact, dense, frequent, head, loaded, murky, proof, thick, tight, well heeled, well to do), förtrupp (advance guard, spearhead, van). (various references)

Turkish

keşif kolu (patrol, reconnaissance party, reconnaissance patrol, scouting party, Van), elebaşı (promoter, protagonist, ringleader, standard bearer, Van), öncü (advance, advance guard, advanced, apostle, avant garde, bannerbearer, high priest, initiator, pilot, pioneer, pole star, precursor, spearhead, trailblazer). (various references)

Ukranian 

авангард (advance guard, avant garde). (various references)

antecessores. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "vanguard": vanguardism, vanguardisms, vanguardist, vanguardists, vanguards. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Vanguard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: avangard, Balnaguard, vangard, vangaurd, Vanguardia, vanguaurd, vanquard. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: grana, grand, guard, guava, navar, ruana, vanda, varna.

-4 letters: agar, anga, aura, dang, darn, drag, drug, dung, dura, durn, gaud, gaun, gaur, gnar, grad, gran, guan, guar, nada, nard, nurd, raga, rand, rang, ruga, rung, vang, vara.

-5 letters: aga, ana, and, ava, dag, dug, dun, gad, gan, gar, gnu, gun, guv, nag, rad, rag, ran, rug, run, urd, urn, van, var, vau, vug.

+1 letter: vanguards.

+3 letters: vanguardism, vanguardist.

+4 letters: vanguardisms, vanguardists.

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