vanguard
vanguard
Definition
van·guard (van′gärd′)
vanguard
Synonyms
vanguard
n.
vanguard
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- proletariat: III The Communist Party is the vanguard of the proletariat.
- revolution: The Houston Brewing Company in Renfrewshire is at the vanguard of the revolution in Scottish Brewing.
- movement: Iraq in the inter-war era was in the vanguard of the movement toward Arab unity.
- army: But for firearms to be effective the guns had to be at the vanguard of the army.
- effort: The French have been in the vanguard of European efforts to develop observation satellites.
- industry: The Executive's vision is to place Scotland in the vanguard of a new sustainable energy industry.
Possessives
- worker: In his conception, this liberating social revolution requires for success the leadership of a revolutionary political party of the workers ' vanguard.
Converse of object
- represent: At this Congress is represented the vanguard, ready for battle, of workers from all over the world.
- lead: Richard III's opponent at Bosworth, Henry Tudor Battle commenced by Norfolk leading the royal vanguard down the hill to meet the enemy.
- become: From 1915 onwards the Clydeside munitions workers had become the vanguard of working class resistance to the war effort.
- form: Russia forms the vanguard of revolutionary action in Europe 2.
Adjective modifier
- proletarian: The Soviet republic, like the world proletarian vanguard, will finally liberate itself from the bureaucratic octopus.
- revolutionary: In the revolutionary vanguard, organized in a party, is crystallized the aspiration of the masses to obtain their freedom.
- political: Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the contemporary avant-garde must substitute itself for the missing political vanguard.
- international: The international proletarian vanguard will manage to get along without a congress.
Modifies a noun
- party: In the hands of these ' leaders ' , the ' vanguard party ' is akin to a loaded gun.
- total: Sites to increase of shopping for of time to vanguard total international.
- role: In the foundation of the Bosnian state itself, Bosnian Serbs played the vanguard role.
- group: More plausibly, however, sets of ambitious countries might set up several different vanguard groups to facilitate closer cooperation in particular policy areas.
- art: Denis Bowen at 80 represents a living continuity with vanguard art in 20th century art.
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