avant-garde

avant–garde

noun

Definition of AVANT-GARDE

the innovators of new concepts, styles, and techniques especially in the arts <to the theater world's avant-garde, the melodrama seemed like a very old-fashioned play whose time had come and gone>

Synonyms cutting edge, van, vanguard

Related Words underground; avant-gardist, forerunner, pioneer, precursor, trailblazer

Near Antonyms establishment, old guard