avant-garde
[ uh-vahnt-gahrd, uh-vant-, av-ahnt-, ah-vahnt-; French a-vahn-gard ]SEE DEFINITION OF avant-gardeEXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR AVANT-GARDE
The avant-garde of 500 regulars and 400 provincials, commanded by Lieut.-Col.
Reading the avant-garde stuff of nowadays, usually the contrast is merely grotesque, still I keep finding parallels.
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.
Unlike elsewhere in Eastern Europe, there has been no experimental or avant-garde theater in Bulgaria.
RELATED WORDS AND SYNONYMS FOR AVANT-GARDE
underground
adjectivesecret, subversiveup-to-date
adjectivecurrent- abreast
- advanced
- all the rage
- au courant
- avant-garde
- brand-new
- contemporary
- current
- cutting edge
- dashing
- expedient
- faddish
- fashionable
- fitting
- happening
- hot
- in
- in fashion
- in vogue
- in-thing
- modern
- modernistic
- modish
- neoteric
- new
- newest
- newfangled
- now
- opportune
- popular
- red-hot
- state of the art
- state-of-the-art
- stylish
- suitable
- timely
- today
- trendy
- up
- up-to-the-minute
- with it
- with-it
- à la mode
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