Tom likes avant-garde music.
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Avant-garde
//ˌɑˌvɑntˈɡɑɹd//
Synonyms for "avant-garde" (83 found)
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10 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
76 translations across 33 languages.
Aragonese
1 entries- abantguarda noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
Belarusian
1 entries- авангарды́сцкі adj (innovative and pioneering)
Bengali
1 entries- অগ্রপথিক noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
Catalan
3 entries- avantguardista adj (innovative and pioneering)
- avantguarda noun ((obsolete) the vanguard of an army or other force)
- avantguarda noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 先鋒 /先锋 adj (innovative and pioneering)
- 前衛 /前卫 adj (innovative and pioneering)
- 前衛 /前卫 noun ((obsolete) the vanguard of an army or other force)
- 前衛派 /前卫派 noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
Czech
1 entries- avantgarda noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
Danish
1 entries- avantgarde noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
Estonian
2 entries- avangardistlik adj (innovative and pioneering)
- avangardne adj (innovative and pioneering)
Finnish
4 entries- avantgardistinen adj (innovative and pioneering)
- avantgardistit noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
- etujoukko noun ((obsolete) the vanguard of an army or other force)
- etujoukko noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
French
2 entries- avant-garde noun ((obsolete) the vanguard of an army or other force)
- avant-garde noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
Galician
1 entries- vangardista adj (innovative and pioneering)
Georgian
2 entries- ავანგარდისტული adj (innovative and pioneering)
- ავანგარდი noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
German
4 entries- avantgardistisch adj (innovative and pioneering)
- Avantgarde noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
- Pioniere noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
- Vorhut noun ((obsolete) the vanguard of an army or other force)
Greek
2 entries- αβανγκάρντ noun ((obsolete) the vanguard of an army or other force)
- αβανγκάρντ noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
Hebrew
1 entries- אוונגרדי noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
Hungarian
1 entries- avantgárd adj (innovative and pioneering)
Indonesian
4 entries- terdepan adj (innovative and pioneering)
- terkemuka adj (innovative and pioneering)
- barisan depan noun ((obsolete) the vanguard of an army or other force)
- garda depan noun ((obsolete) the vanguard of an army or other force)
Italian
2 entries- avanguardia noun ((obsolete) the vanguard of an army or other force)
- avanguardia noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
Japanese
3 entries- 前衛的 adj (innovative and pioneering)
- 前衛 noun ((obsolete) the vanguard of an army or other force)
- 前衛 noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
Korean
1 entries- 전위 noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
Macedonian
3 entries- авангарди́стички adj (innovative and pioneering)
- аванга́рда noun ((obsolete) the vanguard of an army or other force)
- авангарди́ст noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
Malay
1 entries- avant-garde adj (innovative and pioneering)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- avantgarde noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- avantgarde noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
Persian
1 entries- آوانگارد noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
Polish
3 entries- awangardowy adj (innovative and pioneering)
- awangarda noun ((obsolete) the vanguard of an army or other force)
- awangarda noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
Portuguese
3 entries- vanguardista adj (innovative and pioneering)
- vanguarda noun ((obsolete) the vanguard of an army or other force)
- vanguarda noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
Romanian
1 entries- avangardă noun ((obsolete) the vanguard of an army or other force)
Russian
4 entries- аванга́рдный adj (innovative and pioneering)
- авангарди́стский adj (innovative and pioneering)
- аванга́рд noun ((obsolete) the vanguard of an army or other force)
- аванга́рд noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
Spanish
4 entries- vanguardista adj (innovative and pioneering)
- anteguardia noun ((obsolete) the vanguard of an army or other force)
- vanguardia noun ((obsolete) the vanguard of an army or other force)
- vanguardia noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
Thai
1 entries- แนวหน้า noun ((obsolete) the vanguard of an army or other force)
Turkish
2 entries- avangart noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
- öncü noun (group of people promoting new concepts)
Ukrainian
2 entries- аванга́рдний adj (innovative and pioneering)
- авангарди́стський adj (innovative and pioneering)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Zaila Avant-garde, 14, jumped and twirled with joy upon being declared the winner after nailing the spelling of “murraya,” a genus of tropical Asiatic and Australian citrus trees.
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Zaila — whose father changed her last name to Avant-garde in honor of black jazz musician John Coltrane — is not only a world-class speller.
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Some young Koreans express more sexual ambiguity in their avant-garde clothing.
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