Word.ws English Dictionary

avant-gardist

avant-gardist noun: a person who is avant-garde or espouses avant-garde points of view; a member of the avant-garde.

Noun

avant-gardist (plural avant-gardists)

  1. A person who is avant-garde or espouses avant-garde points of view; a member of the avant-garde.

Adjective

avant-gardist (not comparable)

  1. Related to or resembling the avant-garde.
    • Jackass’ affinity with an avant-gardist conception of praxis and the performativity characteristic of performance.2013, Isher-Paul Sahni, “More than Horseplay”, in Studies in Popular Culture, volume 35, page 72

Forms of avant-gardist

pluralavant-gardists
alternative formavantgardist

Origin of avant-gardist

From avant-garde + -ist.

Questions about avant-gardist

What does avant-gardist mean?
Avant-gardist means a person who is avant-garde or espouses avant-garde points of view; a member of the avant-garde.
What part of speech is avant-gardist?
Avant-gardist can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of avant-gardist?
The plural of avant-gardist is avant-gardists.

Words near avant-gardist in the dictionary

  1. avant-funk
  2. avant-garage
  3. avant-garde
  4. avant-gardes
  5. avant-gardism
  6. avant-gardist
  7. avant-gardists
  8. avant-guard
  9. avant-metal
  10. avant-pop
  11. avant-prog

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: avant-gardist (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “avant-gardist.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/avant-gardist. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.