vanguardとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvænˌɡɑɹd/
• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈvanˌɡɑːd/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛnˌɡɐːd/
• 韻: -ænɡɑː(ɹ)d

名詞

vanguard (複数形 vanguards)

1. (military) The leading units at the front of an army or fleet.

   Synonyms: advance guard, (廃れた用法) avant-garde

   Antonym: rearguard

   • 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, OCLC 1086746628, page 35:

     They ſay, that the King diuided his Armie into three Battailes; whereof the Vant-guard onely well ſtrengthened with wings, came to fight.

2. (by extension) The person(s) at the forefront of any group or movement.

   Synonym: avant-garde

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 4, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎^[1]:

     By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.

   • 2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, page 9]”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     [O]ne minute this "Jihadi John" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam.