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noun
1.
the foremost division or the front part of an army; advance guard; van.
2.
the forefront in any movement, field, activity, or the like.
3.
the leaders of any intellectual or political movement.
4.
( initial capital letter ) Rocketry. a U.S. three-stage, satellite-launching rocket, the first two stages powered by liquid-propellant engines and the third by a solid-propellant engine.
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| —n | |
| 1. | the leading division or units of a military force |
| 2. | the leading position in any movement or field, or the people who occupy such a position: the vanguard of modern literature |
| [C15: from Old French avant-garde, from avant- fore- + garde | |
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Word Origin & History
vanguard
c.1450, vaunt garde, from M.Fr. avant-garde, from avant "in front" + garde "guard." Communist revolutionary sense is recorded from 1928.
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Example sentences
He now wants to be seen at the vanguard of the mission to design a new financial system.
The animal kingdom's vanguard would have needed all the help it could get.
Still at the vanguard of number crunching, astronomers are nowadays more likely to be processing images than computing orbits.
With smart power, diplomacy will be the vanguard of our foreign policy.
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