Usually means: Leading position in a movement.
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  1. vanguard: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. vanguard, the vanguard: Merriam-Webster
  3. vanguard, vanguard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. vanguard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. vanguard: Collins English Dictionary
  6. vanguard: Vocabulary.com
  7. Vanguard, vanguard: Wordnik
  8. the vanguard: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. vanguard: Wiktionary
  10. vanguard: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. vanguard: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. vanguard: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. vanguard: Dictionary.com
  14. vanguard: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. vanguard: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Vanguard: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. vanguard: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  20. Vanguard: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. vanguard: FreeDictionary.org
  22. vanguard: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  2. The Vanguard, vanguard: Legal dictionary

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  1. The Vanguard, Vanguard: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. vanguard: A Word A Day

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  1. The Vanguard, vanguard, vanGuard: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (military) The leading units at the front of an army or fleet.
noun:  (by extension) The person(s) at the forefront of any group or movement.

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