avant-garde
See also: avantgarde and Avantgarde
English
WOTD – 31 January 2012
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French avant-garde (“vanguard”). Doublet of vanguard and vaward.
Pronunciation
Noun
avant-garde (plural avant-gardes)
- (obsolete) The vanguard of an army or other force.
- Antonym: arrière-garde
- Any group of people who invent or promote new techniques or concepts, especially in the arts.
- Antonym: arrière-garde
Translations
(obsolete) the vanguard of an army or other force
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group of people promoting new concepts
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Adjective
avant-garde (comparative more avant-garde, superlative most avant-garde)
- Innovative, pioneering, especially when extremely or obviously so.
- It was a very avant-garde production.
Synonyms
- mistakenly trendy
- (outside the mainstream): underground
- See also Thesaurus:innovation
Translations
innovative, pioneering, especially when extremely or obviously so
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Derived terms
See also
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑʋɑntˌɡɑrde/, [ˈɑ̝ʋɑ̝n̪t̪ˌɡɑ̝rde̞]
- IPA(key): /ˈɑʋɑn(t)ˌɡɑːr(d)/, [ˈɑ̝ʋɑ̝n(t̪)ˌɡɑ̝ːr(d)]
- Rhymes: -ɑrde
- Syllabification(key): a‧vant‧gar‧de
Declension
| Inflection of avant-garde (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | avant-garde | — | ||
| genitive | avant-garden | — | ||
| partitive | avant-gardea | — | ||
| illative | avant-gardeen | — | ||
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| nominative | avant-garde | — | ||
| accusative | nom. | avant-garde | — | |
| gen. | avant-garden | |||
| genitive | avant-garden | — | ||
| partitive | avant-gardea | — | ||
| inessive | avant-gardessa | — | ||
| elative | avant-gardesta | — | ||
| illative | avant-gardeen | — | ||
| adessive | avant-gardella | — | ||
| ablative | avant-gardelta | — | ||
| allative | avant-gardelle | — | ||
| essive | avant-gardena | — | ||
| translative | avant-gardeksi | — | ||
| abessive | avant-gardetta | — | ||
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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French avantgarde. By surface analysis, avant (“before, in front of”) + garde (“guard”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.vɑ̃.ɡaʁd/
Audio (Vosges, France) (file)
Noun
avant-garde f (plural avant-gardes)
- (military) vanguard [since mid-12th c.]
- Antonym: arrière-garde
- 1879, Alfred Barbou, Les Trois Républiques françaises : Histoire populaire de la République en France [The Three French Republics: People's history of the Republic in France], A. Duquesne:
- Le 11 décembre, les avant-gardes ennemies étaient signalées aux environs de Château-Thierry.
- On December 11, the enemy vanguard was reported in the vicinity of Château-Thierry.
- (figuratively) avant-garde, firing line [since mid-16th c.]
Derived terms
- avant-gardisme
- avant-gardiste
- d’avant-garde
Descendants
- → Danish: avantgarde
- → English: avant-garde
- → German: Avantgarde
- → Korean: 아방가르드 (abanggareudeu)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: avantgarde
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: avantgarde
- → Swedish: avantgarde
- → Turkish: avangart
Further reading
- “avant-garde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
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