VANGUARDS Synonyms

• a person who goes before or announces the coming of another

• something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone

• anything that precedes something similar in time

• someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art

• one of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory

• open up an area or prepare a way

• take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of

• open up and explore a new area

• someone who marks a trail by leaving blazes on trees

• someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art

• any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)

• radically new or original

• any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)

• the leading units moving at the head of an army

• (Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or freight

• a camper equipped with living quarters

• a truck with an enclosed cargo space

• the part in the front or nearest the viewer

• the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field

• an art movement in French cinema in the 1960s

• any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)