Meaning of vanguard | Babel Free

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1. The leading units at the front of an army or fleet.
2. The foremost position in an army or fleet advancing into battle.
3. The person(s) at the forefront of any group or movement.
   broadly
4. The foremost or leading position in a trend or movement.
5. (Military) the leading division or units of a military force
6. the leading position in any movement or field, or the people who occupy such a position: the vanguard of modern literature.
7. the front part of an advancing army.
8. the forefront in any field.
9. the leaders of any intellectual or political movement.
10. n (Mil, Naut) → Vorhut f; (fig also) → Spitze f, → Führung f; in the vanguard of reform → an der Spitze der Reformen
    n
11. the part of an army going in front of the main body. voorhoede طَليعَة الجَيْش воен. авангард vanguarda předvoj die Vorhut fortrop εμπροσθοφυλακή vanguardia eelvägi پیش قراول eturintama avant-garde חֵיל חָלוּץ सेनाग्र prethodnica előőrs regu pelopor framvarðarsveit avanguardia 前衛 (군대의) 전초, 선봉 avangardas avangards barisan hadapan voorhoedefortropp straż przednia vanguarda avangardă авангард predvoj predstraža izvidnica förtrupp ทหารกองหน้า ileri kol, öncü 前鋒部隊 головний загін مقدمۃ الجیس، ہراول...
12. the leaders in any movement. We're in the vanguard of the movement for reform! spits طَليعَة حَرَكَةٍ ما челен отряд vanguarda první linie die Spitze ledelse πρωτοπορίαvanguardia avangard پیشگام kärkijoukko avant-gardeחלוץ आन्दोलन का नेतृत्व करने वाला predstraža élcsapat pelopor forysta, fylkingarbrjóst avanguardia 先駆者 (운동, 분야, 활동 등의) 선두, 지도자 avangardas avangards pelopor voorhoedefortropp, avantgardeawangarda vanguarda avan­gardă авангард prvá línia avantgarda avangarda främsta led, avantgard...

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Examples

“They ſay, that the King diuided his Armie into three Battailes; whereof the Vant-guard onely well ſtrengthened with wings, came to fight.”

“By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.”

“[O]ne minute this "Jihadi John" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam.”

“The outsiders are looking more like insiders, the vanguard of a cultural and political shift that could be far more profound than in his first presidency.”

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