noun
- Any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts.
- synonyms: avant-garde, vanguard, new wave
- The leading units moving at the head of an army.
- synonyms: vanguard
- Great Britain. ( a closed railroad car that carries baggage or freight)
- A camper equipped with living quarters.
- synonyms: caravan
- A truck with an enclosed cargo space. .
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