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[VAN-gawrd] 
1. the leading divisions of an army or navy with positions at the head of an advance
2. the leading position of a movement, trend, or field, or those occupying a leading position: "Soy lattes would not have raised an eyebrow in San Francisco, but my father was at the vanguard of Nashville progressive culture when he started offering them at his cafe."
additional noun forms: vanguardism, vanguardist
Origin:
Approximately 1450; from Middle English, 'vandgard,' from 'vaunt garde'; borrowed from Middle French, 'avant-garde': advance guard ('avant': forward, from Latin, 'abante' + 'garde': guard, from 'garder': to guard). In action:
"For more than 50 years, Merce Cunningham has been in the vanguard of the avant-garde. Starting his career as a dancer in the Martha Graham Company in the early 1940s, he gave his first solo concert in 1944 and formed his own company in 1953. Using chance techniques (coin tosses, the I Ching, computers) to determine sequences of movement, eschewing narrative, honing his ceaselessly inventive, abstract choreography with such austere modernist collaborators as his lifelong companion John Cage, Cunningham has created nearly 200 works, an oeuvre that stands as one of the great achievements of 20th-century dance."
Cynthia Joyce. "I like to make steps," [Interview with Merce Cunningham] Salon.com (July 22, 1996).
"Penn State deprived 220 students of high-speed Internet connections in their dorms after it found they were sharing copyrighted material, the university said.
Upon investigation, the university found the students had publicly listed copyright-infringing materials on their systems to other members of the university network, a Penn State spokesperson said.
Music and movie industry groups have urged universities to curb the sharing of copyrighted files and penalize violators. Students, who often have fast Internet connections and little cash, are seen as the vanguard in a wave of downloading that the entertainment industry claims is cutting into its profits."
Kari L. Dean. "Grounded from the Web," Wired News (April 22, 2003).
� "Ladies and gentlemen, I have a grave announcement to make. Incredible as it may seem, strange beings who landed in New Jersey tonight are the vanguard of an invading army from Mars."
Orson Welles (1915-1984). U.S. filmmaker, actor, producer. Radio broadcast, Halloween, 1938, CBS; from the original story by H.G. Wells (1898). [According to the later reports, despite clear warnings that the broadcast was science fiction, listeners jammed switchboards and roads as they abandoned their homes in large numbers, with some people claiming they had actually seen the Martians.--The Columbia World of Quotations (1996).]
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