Antonyms for vanguard
ˈvænˌgɑrdvan·guard

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1. vanguardnoun

   Antonyms:
   rearguard

   Synonyms:
   advance guard

2. vanguardnoun

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

   Antonyms:
   rearguard

   Synonyms:
   advance guard

3. vanguardnoun

   (by extension) The persons at the forefront of any group or movement.

   Synonyms:
   advance guard

   Antonyms:
   rearguard

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1. • Army Unit
   • Artistic Movement
   • Position

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. vanguard, vannoun

   the leading units moving at the head of an army

   Synonyms:
   forefront, van, avant-garde, cutting edge, new wave, caravan

2. avant-garde, vanguard, van, new wavenoun

   any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)

   Synonyms:
   forefront, van, avant-garde, cutting edge, new wave, caravan

3. vanguard, forefront, cutting edgenoun

   the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field

   "the Cotswolds were once at the forefront of woollen manufacturing in England"; "the idea of motion was always to the forefront of his mind and central to his philosophy"

   Synonyms:
   head, forefront, cutting edge, new wave, avant-garde, knife edge, van

How to use vanguard in a sentence?

1. John Woerth:

   Vanguard has been very clear about the risks of the fund on our website and prospectus, and we will continue to educate investors about market volatility and the additional risks that accompany investing in any emerging market.

2. Clive Standen:

   When I found out I was going to be the guy who leads from the vanguard.

3. Oren Etzioni:

   In the past, Apple has not been at the vanguard of machine learning and cutting edge artificial intelligence work, but that is rapidly changing, they are after the best and the brightest, just like everybody else.

4. Yuval Steinitz:

   If Assad allows Iran to turn Syria into a military vanguard against us, to attack us from Syrian territory, he should know that would be the end of him, the end of his regime.

5. Antony Blinken:

   On the contrary, we continue to see forces, especially forces that would be in the vanguard of any renewed aggression against Ukraine, continuing to be at the border, to mass at the border.

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