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Meanings of vanguard (vanguards) in English
Any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
Portuguese
primeiro plano The position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field.
Synonyms
Examples for "advance guard"
Examples for "advance guard"
1
The advance guard was now at the foot of the sheer cliff.
2
Almost at the same moment, the soldiers of the advance guard arrived.
3
Then the advance guard was halted till all the soldiers caught up.
4
Corrals, pens, and sheds have been first labors of the advance guard.
5
As soon as his advance guard appeared, the besiegers fled before him.
Usage of vanguards in English
1
Indeed, Wells and Choi are the vanguards of a larger societal trend.
2
Tall black trees stood all round him, the vanguards of the forest host.
3
The press is calling us vanguards of the second wave of the British invasion.
4
Fabric vanguards, shearing authorities and leaders of their design class.
5
We must be the vanguards of the future.
6
Harry and Dalton stopped at Gettysburg, seeing the battle of the vanguards won, and turned back.
7
They are the four vanguards of the human race, marching towards the four cardinal points of progress.
8
His vanguards were north of the marshes.
9
On the 10th of December, Schwartzenberg was at Slonim, presenting successively vanguards towards Minsk, Nowogrodeck, and Bienitza.
10
They, the vanguards of the coast.
11
Here were already some of the wider spaced vanguards of that wood; but here, too, a peculiar circumstance struck him.
12
But the vanguards of the overwhelming Etruscan army soon took the fort, and then, in the gallant words of Lord Macaulay's ballad,-
13
The new vanguards of the single wheel focused less on making human-sized hamster balls and more on making smaller, more maneuverable personal transportation.
14
Those against him he will denounce as unAmerican, as enemies of the people, and as the vanguards of foreignness and of hostile ideologies.
15
Stalwarts such as Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard HPQ.N, vanguards of tech a few decades ago, are now supplanted by a generation of hot start-ups .
16
The four Vanguards are scheduled to be phased out by 2032.
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Translations for vanguards
Portuguese
Catalan
Spanish
Vanguards through the time