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. Chris Heffron:

   She's like our vanguard for all things film.

2. Rod Doss:

   What the Courier is doing is letting everyone know what the plight of African-Americans is. in many instances we've been in the vanguard of creating change, because we do challenge the community from within.

3. Todd Rosenbluth:

   Based on the names and country profiles, it should seem they are offering you the same exposure, but they track different indices, their country exposure is going to be different, and that exposure difference helps explain why they perform differently. So far, the discrepancy has helped The Vanguard fund, Todd Rosenbluth said, although both funds have taken a hit since the end of June, when the Shanghai Composite Index started falling. Since then, The Vanguard fund has lost 11.65 percent, while the iShares fund has fallen 12.45 percent. Year to date, The Vanguard fund is down 6.97 percent, and the iShares fund is down 8.89 percent. Chinese shares have been falling on fears that the nation's economy may slow well beyond the 7 percent growth rate that analysts had earlier suggested would be a bottom for that market. China has moved to weaken its currency to bolster its economy and share prices. The difference between the two funds is expected to widen because the two different indexes they follow will be treating Chinese stocks differently. FTSE, the Financial Times Stock Exchange, plans to begin adding onshore Chinese equities, known as A-shares, to its broad emerging markets indexes, which Vanguard follows. The Vanguard benchmark, the FTSE Emerging Index, now has approximately 26 percent exposure to China, according to the mutual fund company. In June, Vanguard said it would begin shifting to a new FTSE index later this year. The new index will have a 29 percent exposure to China, including a 5.6 percent exposure to A-shares. MSCI Inc, however, said in June that it was not ready to include the A-shares in its two emerging market indexes.

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. Clive Standen:

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