vanguard

Other forms of vanguard

plural

vanguards·

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.

Questions about vanguard

What does vanguard mean?

vanguard means "the leading units moving at the head of an army". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vanguard?

vanguard has 2 syllables: van-guard. The stress falls on "van". In IPA it is /ˈvænˌɡɑɹd/.

What is another word for vanguard?

Close synonyms include van, avant-garde, van, new wave, forefront. 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 vanguard a common word?

vanguard is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 vanguard?

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