Definitions for Vanguard

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Vanguard van·guard

Spelling: [van-gahrd]

IPA: /ˈvænˌgɑrd/

Vanguard is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 185 anagrams from letters in Vanguard (aadgnruv).

Definitions for Vanguard

noun

1. the foremost division or the front part of an army; advance guard; van.
2. the forefront in any movement, field, activity, or the like.
3. the leaders of any intellectual or political movement.
4. (initial capital letter) Rocketry. a U.S. three-stage, satellite-launching rocket, the first two stages powered by liquid-propellant engines and the third by a solid-propellant engine.

Origin of Vanguard

1480-90; earlier van(d)gard(e) Middle French avangarde, variant of avant-garde; see avaunt, guard

Examples for Vanguard

Stasio was just one member of a vast hacking enterprise, the vanguard of a new cyber war.

Miller has long been a regular contributor on anti-Semitic and white supremacist Internet forum vanguard News Network (VNN).

At the vanguard of the protests has been the galvanizing effect of social media.

At its peak, the group drew 100 members to its weekly meetings and was a vanguard for LGBT advocacy.

We are the pioneers, the vanguard, the riskers full of faith and hope.

For a whole month the German vanguard remained on the lookout in the village.

Had we been forced to meet them vanguard to vanguard, on an equal footing, who could have been surprised?

Shall the vanguard consist of men who are greediest of honour?

He was on the vanguard of domestic policy and created a tremendous amount of legislation that we enjoy today.

Yet what of that great oncoming horde of which we were but the vanguard?