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Meanings of vanguard in English

Portuguese
anteguarda
Catalan
avantguarda
Spanish
vanguardia

Any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)

        anteguarda
        Portuguese
        primeiro plano

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

              primeiro plano

              The leading units moving at the head of an army.

                    Usage of vanguard in English
                    1
                    Kramer is in the vanguard of a new type of mass litigation.
                    Reuters
                    2
                    These be the ships appointed for the first rank of the vanguard:
                    Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 / Publications of the Navy Reco...
                    3
                    The vanguard was overthrown; its men made serfs and its women mothers.
                    The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man
                    4
                    But then, Sweden has been in the vanguard for quite some time.
                    Wired
                    5
                    It was here, he said, that the Taliban played a vanguard role.
                    The forever war
                    6
                    I want UK businesses to be in the vanguard of that move.
                    The Guardian
                    7
                    The fighting between the Northern rearguard, and the Southern vanguard never ceased.
                    The Sword of Antietam: A Story of the Nation's Crisis
                    8
                    General de la Peña, who commanded the vanguard, accepted the same conditions.
                    World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France
                    9
                    The vanguard-theforlorn hope of the great plot, he commented to himself.
                    Under Western Eyes
                    10
                    One hour later the vanguard of the imperial army resumed its march.
                    Prince Eugene and His Times
                    11
                    Its new Gear S3 looks to launch it to the vanguard again.
                    The Irish Times
                    12
                    When the empire's days ran out, Gusinsky merged into the capitalist vanguard.
                    Wired
                    13
                    General Motors and Nissan are the vanguard of the looming EV revolution.
                    Wired
                    14
                    The towering Lekgolo pair growled their gratitude at leading the true vanguard.
                    Ghosts of Onyx
                    15
                    His great-grandfather fell at Crecy, leading the vanguard of the French host.
                    Joan of Arc
                    16
                    The vanguard of the land hungry had already penetrated to Fort George.
                    North of Fifty-Three
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                    Translations for vanguard
                    Vanguard through the time
                    Vanguard across language varieties
                    United Kingdom
                    Common
                    United States of America
                    Less common