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• avantgarde

語源

From 中期英語 advaunte-garde, avauntgard, from Old French avangarde, avant-garde, avantgarde, from avant (“before; in front”) + garde (“guard”). Doublet of vanguard and vaward

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /æˈvɑ̃t.ɡɑːd/, /æˈvɑ̃.ɡɑːd/, /ˌæ.vɑ̃ˈɡɑːd/, /ˈæ.vn̩t.ɡɑːd/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌɑˌvɑntˈɡɑɹd/, /əˌvɑntˈɡɑɹd/, /ˌæ.vɑntˈɡɑɹd/, /ˌɑˌvæntˈɡɑɹd/, /əˌvæntˈɡɑɹd/, /ˌɑˌvɑ̃ˈɡɑɹd/, /ˌæˌvɑ̃ˈɡɑɹd/

名詞

avant-garde (plural avant-gardes)

1. (obsolete) The vanguard of an army or other force.

   Antonym: arrière-garde

2. Any group of people who invent or promote new techniques or concepts, especially in the arts.

   Synonyms: remnant, vanguard

   Antonym: arrière-garde

形容詞

avant-garde (comparative more avant-garde, superlative most avant-garde)

1. Innovative and pioneering, especially when extremely or obviously so.

   Synonyms: underground; see also Thesaurus:innovation

   It was a very avant-garde production.

   • 2009 January 30, Wendy Moonan, “An Old-School Collector With Ideas on Beauty”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 26 November 2022:

     While the work of the contemporary artists in the show is avant-garde, it does not overwhelm the colorful faience made by the Faucon family, seven generations of ceramicists who operated a factory in Apt, a town in the Luberon Valley, from 1890 until 2002.

   • 2014 November 24, James Dobson, Modesty and Self-Esteem‎, archived from the original on 24 March 2025:

     I fear she will pay a heavy price for the avant garde ideas she has been sold.

   • 2025 June 3, Mark O’Connell, “‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 7 June 2025:

     There’s a moment, for instance, in the competition show Beast Games that struck me as something close to avant garde. Donaldson lays out a million dollars in cash in a big pile, and instructs each of the 10 remaining contestants to come out of their little houses one by one, and to choose how much money they want to take from the pile.

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参考

• avant basic
• leading edge

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