avant

Abbreviated from avant-garde.

avant (plural avants)

1. (obsolete) The front of an army; the vanguard.

• van

• “avant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “avant”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Inherited from Late Latin ab ante (“before, in front of”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əˈβan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əˈvant]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [aˈvant]

avant

1. forward, ahead, onward

   Synonym: endavant

   Antonym: endarrere

• abans

• “avant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “avant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “avant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “avant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Late Latin ab ante.

avant (ORB)

1. before

avant (ORB)

1. before, ahead of

• avantâjo

• avanciér

• avant in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• avant in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Inherited from Middle French avant, from Old French avant (“before, prior in time, forward”), from Late Latin ab ante (“before, in front of”), from Latin ab (“from”) + ante (“before”).

• IPA^(key): /a.vɑ̃/

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• Homophones: avants, avent, Avent

avant

1. beforehand; earlier

   Je l’avais fait avant. ― I had done it beforehand.

avant

1. before (in time)

   Antonym: après

   Elle est arrivé un jour avant moi. ― She arrived one day before me.

   Il faut se laver avant de manger. ― You must wash before eating.

   Tais-toi avant que je ne te tue. ― Shut up before I kill you.

2. before (in space), in front of, ahead of

   Antonym: après

• avancer

• Haitian Creole: anvan

avant m (plural avants)

1. front

   l’avant d’une voiture ― The front of a car.

2. (sports) forward

• “avant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• vanta

From Old French avant, from Late Latin ab ante (“before, in front of”), from Latin ab (“from”) + ante (“before”).

avant

1. (Jersey) beforehand; earlier

avant

1. (Jersey) before

• avant-hièr (“day before yesterday”)

avant m (plural avants)

1. (Jersey, nautical) bow

• avaunt

From Late Latin ab ante (“before, in front of”), from Latin ab (“from”) + ante (“before”).

avant

1. beforehand; earlier

avant

1. before

• avancier

• French: avant
• Norman: avant
• → Middle English: avaunt

• avon (Sursilvan)
• avànt (Sutsilvan)
• aunz, avaunt (Puter)

From Late Latin ab ante, from Latin ab + ante.

avant

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Vallader) before, beforehand
2. (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Vallader) ago