Antonyms for avant-garde
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : uh-vahnt-gahrd, uh-vant-, av-ahnt-, ah-vahnt-; French a-vahn-gard |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˌvɑntˈgɑrd, əˌvænt-, ˌæv ɑnt-, ˌɑ vɑnt-; French a vɑ̃ˈgard |
Definition of avant-garde
Origin :- (also avant garde, avantgarde); French, literally "advance guard" (see avant + guard (n.)). Used in English 15c.-18c. in a literal, military sense; borrowed again 1910 as an artistic term for "pioneers or innovators of a particular period." Also used around the same time in communist and anarchist publications. As an adjective, by 1925.
- The avant-garde générale, avant-garde stratégique, or avant-garde d'armée is a strong force (one, two, or three army corps) pushed out a day's march to the front, immediately behind the cavalry screen. Its mission is, vigorously to engage the enemy wherever he is found, and, by binding him, to ensure liberty of action in time and space for the main army. ["Sadowa," Gen. Henri Bonnal, transl. C.F. Atkinson, 1907]
- adj unconventional, forward-looking
- The avant-garde of 500 regulars and 400 provincials, commanded by Lieut.-Col.
- Extract from : « "Evacuation Day", 1783 » by James Riker
- Reading the avant-garde stuff of nowadays, usually the contrast is merely grotesque, still I keep finding parallels.
- Extract from : « The Trial of Callista Blake » by Edgar Pangborn
- She got possession of the kiln, as usual, and the ass was sent to graze on the green; but Mary was only the avant-garde.
- Extract from : « A History of the Gipsies » by Walter Simson
- Unlike elsewhere in Eastern Europe, there has been no experimental or avant-garde theater in Bulgaria.
- Extract from : « Area Handbook for Bulgaria » by Eugene K. Keefe, Violeta D. Baluyut, William Giloane, Anne K. Long, James M. Moore, and Neda A. Walpole
Synonyms for avant-garde
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