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new guard

new guard noun: a group of people who are more willing to accept new ideas than their peers are.

Noun (1)

new guard (plural new guards)

  1. A group of people who are more willing to accept new ideas than their peers are.
  2. Collectively, people who have recently gained prominence or influence within a specific field.
    • The fits and starts of recent East European political history have many of their deepest roots in this inherently ambiguous predicament of the new guard of middle- and upper-level leaders.1971 December, Zygmunt Bauman, “Twenty Years After: The Crisis of Soviet-Type Systems”, in Theodore Frankel, editor, Problems of Communism, volume 20, number 6, page 49
    • Across the UK, a new guard of designers is drawing on global influences to ask how we can use our pasts – whether cultural heritage, personal histories, or intergenerational trauma and healing – to forge a new path to the future that ricochets between the boundaries of sexuality, gender, race, and...2022 January 17, Liam Hess, “The new guard of young designers interrogating cultural identity”, in Dazed Digital

Noun (2) capitalized: New Guard

New Guard (plural New Guards)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of new guard.

Antonyms of new guard

Forms of new guard

pluralnew guards
pluralNew Guards

Origin of new guard

From the antonym old guard.

Questions about new guard

What does new guard mean?
New guard means a group of people who are more willing to accept new ideas than their peers are.
What part of speech is new guard?
New guard is a noun.
What is the plural of new guard?
The plural of new guard is new guards.

Words near new guard in the dictionary

  1. New Glasgow
  2. New Gloucester
  3. New Granada
  4. New Greek
  5. New Gretna
  6. new guard
  7. new guards
  8. New Guinea
  9. New Guinea flightless rail
  10. New Guinea flightless rails
  11. New Guinea Highlands

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