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say it: VAN-gahrd
vanguard is a noun meaning "the leading units moving at the head of an army". It carries 3 recorded senses.
any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for vanguard come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.