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vaward

UK/ˈvɔːwəd/US/ˈvɔwɚd/

vaward noun: the vanguard.

Noun

vaward (plural vawards)

  1. The vanguard.
    • THenne kyng Arthur made redy his hoost in x batails and Nero was redy in the felde afore the castel Tarabil with a grete hoost / & he had x batails with many mo peple than Arthur had / Thenne Nero had the vaward with the moost party of his peple / & merlyn cam to kyng lot of the yle of Orkeney1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter X, in Le Morte Darthur, book II
    • Then they were marched off to the railway station with the band in the vaward playing ‘Have you ever caught your ballocks in a rat trap?’1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron

Adjective

vaward (not comparable)

  1. On or towards the front; vanward.

vaward meaning in Bengali

vaward in Bengali

অগ্রবাহিনী, সামনের দিকে, সামনের অভিমুখে

Forms of vaward

pluralvawards

Origin of vaward

Inherited from Middle English vawarde, late form of vantwarde, aphetism of Anglo-Norman avantwarde, a variant of Old French avant-guarde. Doublet of avant-garde and vanguard.

Questions about vaward

What does vaward mean?
Vaward means the vanguard.
What is vaward in Bengali?
Vaward in Bengali is অগ্রবাহিনী, সামনের দিকে, সামনের অভিমুখে. See Vaward meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is vaward?
Vaward can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce vaward?
Vaward is pronounced /ˈvɔːwəd/ (UK).
What is the plural of vaward?
The plural of vaward is vawards.

Words near vaward in the dictionary

  1. Vavras
  2. vavs
  3. Vavuniya
  4. vaw
  5. VAWA
  6. vaward
  7. vawards
  8. Vawdrey
  9. Vawdreys
  10. VAWG
  11. Vawkavysk

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vaward (page history and authors); vaward (Bengali Wiktionary) (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.

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