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| Domain | Definition |
Military | The leading element of an advancing force. The primary mission is to ensure the uninterrupted advance of the main body. It has the following functions: a. To find and exploit gaps in the enemy's defensive system; b. To prevent the main body of the advancing force running blindly into enemy opposition; c. To clear away minor opposition or, if major opposition is met, to cover the deployment of the main body. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Front | Fore rank, front rank; van, vanguard; advanced guard; outpost; first line; scout. |
Warning | Watchtower, beacon, signal post; lighthouse; (indication of locality). sentinel, sentry; watch, watchman; watch and ward; watchdog, bandog, housedog; patrol, patrolman, vedette, picket, bivouac, scout, spy, spial; undercover agent, mole, plainclothesman; advanced guard, rear guard; lookout. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ADVANCED GUARD |
| Specialty definitions using "ADVANCED GUARD": mainguard. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Advanced Guard (1998) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
advanced guard militaria | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ADVANCED GUARD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | авангарден (vanguard). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | elõvéd (advance force, advance guard). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | advanceday uardgay avangarda (advance guard, vanguard). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-d-d-d-e-g-n-r-u-v" | |
-4 letters: caravaned. | |
-5 letters: advanced, advancer, dracaena, graduand, granddad, ungraced, ungraded, vanguard. | |
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