Vanguard

Quick meaning: Vanguard is a noun meaning (military) The leading units at the front of an army or fleet.

Meaning

(military) The leading units at the front of an army or fleet.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) The person(s) at the forefront of any group or movement.

Example Sentences

They ſay, that the King diuided his Armie into three Battailes; whereof the Vant-guard onely well ſtrengthened with wings, came to fight.

The outsiders are looking more like insiders, the vanguard of a cultural and political shift that could be far more profound than in his first presidency.

By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.

[O]ne minute this "Jihadi John" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam.

Word Forms

• vanguards

Synonyms for vanguard

Depending on context, synonyms include avant-garde, remnant, cutting edge, forefront, van.

Antonyms for vanguard

Common opposites include rearguard.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include forefront, van, cutting edge, avant garde, frontline, frontrunner.

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