avant-garde

Questions about avant-garde

What does avant-garde mean?

avant-garde means "any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in avant-garde?

avant-garde has 3 syllables: a-vant--garde. The stress falls on "vant-". In IPA it is /əˈvɑntˈɡɑɹd/.

What is another word for avant-garde?

Close synonyms include vanguard, van, new wave, daring. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is avant-garde a common word?

avant-garde is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with avant-garde?

9 words rhyme with avant-garde. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.