nouvelle vague

1. 1.

   an art movement in French cinema in the 1960s

   SynonymsNew Wave

   Broaderartistic movement

Questions about nouvelle vague

What does nouvelle vague mean?

nouvelle vague means "an art movement in French cinema in the 1960s".

What is another word for nouvelle vague?

Close synonyms include New Wave. 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 nouvelle vague a common word?

nouvelle vague is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.