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avant-garde
[ uh-vahnt-gahrd, uh-vant-, av-ahnt-, ah-vahnt-; French a-vahn-gard ]
noun
- the advance group in any field, especially in the visual, literary, or musical arts, whose works are characterized chiefly by unorthodox and experimental methods.
adjective
- of or relating to the experimental treatment of artistic, musical, or literary material.
- belonging to the avant-garde:
an avant-garde composer.
- unorthodox or daring; radical:
To regain public trust in the news media, the organization took the avant-garde approach of including the public in the production of news.
avant-garde
/ ˌævɒŋˈɡɑːd; avɑ̃ɡard /
noun
- those artists, writers, musicians, etc, whose techniques and ideas are markedly experimental or in advance of those generally accepted
adjective
- of such artists, etc, their ideas, or techniques
- radical; daring
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Derived Forms
- ˌavant-ˈgardist, noun
- ˌavant-ˈgardism, noun
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Other Words From
- a·vant-gard·ist noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of avant-garde1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of avant-garde1
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Example Sentences
And, as the enigmatic front man to an avant garde indie rock group, he is droll, perceptive, and splendidly weird.
How a small London design group seized the moment and brought avant-garde art to classic rock.
From the refined attire at Lincoln Center to the avant-garde dress downtown, we spotted many of the big 2014 trends.
She veers towards the avant-garde, using metal-powder deformed silicone piercings as textural embellishment and digital printers.
Instead, you find your favorite objects displaced by a cacophony of contemporary works, often highly avant-garde and challenging.
If there is any shadowing of either of you, Jules Victor is an invincible avant garde.
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.
These five divisions were the avant garde of the main body of the Italian army.
We then started at a smart pace, but could not come up with our avant garde.
Reading the avant-garde stuff of nowadays, usually the contrast is merely grotesque, still I keep finding parallels.
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