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AVANT-GARDE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does avant-garde mean?
• AVANT-GARDE (noun)
The noun AVANT-GARDE has 1 sense:
1. any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
Familiarity information: AVANT-GARDE used as a noun is very rare.
• AVANT-GARDE (adjective)
The adjective AVANT-GARDE has 1 sense:
1. radically new or original
Familiarity information: AVANT-GARDE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
avant-garde; new wave; van; vanguard
Hypernyms ("avant-garde" is a kind of...):
art movement; artistic movement (a group of artists who agree on general principles)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Radically new or original
Synonyms:
avant-garde; daring
Context example:
an avant-garde theater piece
Similar:
original (being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of)
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