All 3 Uses of
vanguard
in
The Fountainhead
- New Frontiers had a white cover with a black emblem that combined a palette, a lyre, a hammer, a screw driver and a rising sun; it had a circulation of thirty thousand and a following that described itself as the intellectual vanguard of the country; no one had ever risen to challenge the description.†
Chpt 1.4
- She was the standard-bearer of a vanguard of intellect and revolt.†
Chpt 2.4 *
- Eve Layton believed that her mission in life was to be the vanguard—it did not matter of what.†
Chpt 4.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(vanguard) the leading position in any movement or field
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, vanguard is used in a military context to specifically refer to units moving at the head of an army.