Avant-Garde
[ah-vant-GARD]
Part of speech: adjective
Origin: French, early 20th century
1.
Favoring or introducing experimental or unusual ideas.
Examples of Avant-Garde in a sentence
"The student art show promised many avant-garde pieces."
"The design was a little too avant-garde for me."
About Avant-Garde
Avant-garde is used as an adjective to decribe something unusual or experimental. It can also be used as a noun to refer to these out-there ideas, or the people introducing them. You might meet the avant-garde at an avant-garde art gallery.
Did you Know?
Avant-garde, while commonly used to refer to the arts, can also describe cultural change. Ideas of progress and social change can be avant-garde in one decade, and accepted as the norm in another.
