Usually means: Innovative, unconventional, ahead of norms.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. avant-garde: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. avant-garde: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. avant-garde: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. avant-garde, avant-garde: Collins English Dictionary
  5. avant-garde: Vocabulary.com
  6. Avant-Garde, Avant-garde, avant-garde: Wordnik
  7. avant-garde: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. avant-garde: Wiktionary
  9. avant-garde: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. avant-garde: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. avant-garde: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. avant-garde: Dictionary.com
  13. avant-garde: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. avant-garde: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Avant-Garde, Avant-garde, The Avant-Garde: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. avant-garde: Rhymezone
  17. avant-garde: Free Dictionary
  18. avant-garde: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. avant-garde: Dictionary/thesaurus
  20. avant-garde: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. avant-garde: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Avant-garde: art glossary
  3. AVANT-GARDE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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  1. avant-garde: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. avant-garde: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. the avant-garde: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. avant-garde: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (obsolete) The vanguard of an army or other force.
noun:  Any group of people who invent or promote new techniques or concepts, especially in the arts.
adjective:  Innovative and pioneering, especially when extremely or obviously so.

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