Synonyms for vanguard
ˈvænˌgɑrdvan·guard

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1. vanguardnoun

   Synonyms:
   advance guard

   Antonyms:
   rearguard

2. vanguardnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   advance guard

   Antonyms:
   rearguard

3. vanguardnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   advance guard

   Antonyms:
   rearguard

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms: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

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1. • Army Unit
   • Artistic Movement
   • Position

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. vanguardnoun

   Synonyms:
   advance-guard

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "vanguard":

   forefront, avant-garde, pioneer, cutting-edge

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1. Douglas Barrie:

   It covers ground and air and there are multiple people involved, and it is difficult to know who is doing what let alone the cost of the campaign, it is hardly surprising that the near term focus of the countries at the vanguard of the campaign has switched from long-term equipment to replenishing ammunition stocks and looking at lessons of the air campaign.

2. Tereza Cristina:

   Sorry, Gisele Bundchen, you should be our ambassador, to say that your country preserves, that your country is on the global vanguard of preservation, and don't come here saying bad things about Brazil without knowledge of the facts.

3. Dan Wiener:

   Vanguard is a passive player pretending to take an active role. But their weapon is a gun loaded with blanks.

4. Rod Doss:

   In many instances we've been in the vanguard of creating change, because we do challenge the community from within, that's where it begins.

5. 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.