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. Jonathan Scheid:

   They're growing because they are plugged into the Vanguard machine.

2. 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.

3. Douglas Barrie:

   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.

4. Antony Blinken:

   Unfortunately there's a difference between what Russia says and what it does. And what we're seeing is no meaningful pullback, 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.

5. 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.