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vanguard
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vanguard
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Vanguard
(gcide) | Vanguard \Van"guard`\, n. [For vantguard, avantguard, F.
avant-garde; avant before, fore + garde guard. See Avant,
Ab-,Ante-, and Guard, and cf. Advance, Vamp, Van
of an army, Vaward.] (Mil.)
The troops who march in front of an army; the advance guard;
the van.
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vanguard
(wn) | vanguard
n 1: the leading units moving at the head of an army [syn:
vanguard, van]
2: any creative group active in the innovation and application
of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially
in the arts) [syn: avant-garde, vanguard, van, {new
wave}]
3: 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" [syn: vanguard,
forefront, cutting edge] |
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Vanguard
(gcide) | Vanguard \Van"guard`\, n. [For vantguard, avantguard, F.
avant-garde; avant before, fore + garde guard. See Avant,
Ab-,Ante-, and Guard, and cf. Advance, Vamp, Van
of an army, Vaward.] (Mil.)
The troops who march in front of an army; the advance guard;
the van.
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vanguards of conquest
(wn) | Vanguards of Conquest
n 1: an Islamic extremist group active since the late 1970s;
seeks to overthrow the Egyptian government and replace it
with an Islamic state; works in small underground cells;
"the original Jihad was responsible for the assassination
of Anwar Sadat in 1981" [syn: al-Jihad, {Egyptian Islamic
Jihad}, Islamic Jihad, Vanguards of Conquest] |
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