Usually means: Before, in front, leading position.
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  1. avant: Merriam-Webster
  2. avant-: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. avant-, avant-: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. avant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  11. avant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  13. Avant, avant-: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. avant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Avant: Rhymezone
  16. avant: Merriam-Webster

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Avant)

▸ noun:  (obsolete) The front of an army; the vanguard.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:
avant-garde, avant-guard, foreward, avantgarde, point, forewatch, fore, forepart, leading edge, advance-guard, more...

Opposite:
arrière, rear, back

Types:
garde, pioneering, experimental, innovative, progressive, revolutionary, more...

Phrases:
avant garde, avant courier, traction avant, avant couriers, avant gardism, more...

Adjectives:
french, european, american, russian, historical, much, artistic, contemporary, international, literary, modernist



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Similar:
avant-garde, avant-guard, foreward, avantgarde, point, forewatch, fore, forepart, leading edge, advance-guard, more...

Opposite:
arrière, rear, back

Types:
garde, pioneering, experimental, innovative, progressive, revolutionary, more...

Phrases:
avant garde, avant courier, traction avant, avant couriers, avant gardism, avant guard, avant gardist, the avant garde, avant gardists, avant la lettre, avant corps, avant gardes, avant pop, en avant, more...

Adjectives:
french, european, american, russian, historical, much, artistic, contemporary, international, literary, modernist



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