Vanguard vs Adept - What's the difference?
vanguard | adept |
The leading units at the front of an army or fleet.
(by extension) The person(s) at the forefront of any group or movement.
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Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient
* 1837-1839 ,
One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.
* 1841 , , Barnaby Rudge :
* 1894-95 , , Jude the Obscure :
As nouns the difference between vanguard and adept
is that vanguard is the leading units at the front of an army or fleet while adept is one fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.As an adjective adept is
well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.vanguard
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.}}
Synonyms
* advance guardAntonyms
* rearguardadept
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Adept as she was, in all the arts of cunning and dissimulation, the girl Nancy could not wholly conceal the effect which the knowledge of the step she had taken, wrought upon her mind.
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* ineptNoun
(en noun)- When he had achieved this task, he applied himself to the acquisition of stable language, in which he soon became such an adept , that he would perch outside my window and drive imaginary horses with great skill, all day.
- Others, alas, had an instinct towards artificiality in their very blood, and became adepts in counterfeiting at the first glimpse of it.