Difference between Avant-garde and Vanguard

Avant-garde

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The vanguard of an army or other force. Any group of people who invent or promote new techniques or concepts, especially in the arts.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Innovative, pioneering, especially when extremely or obviously so.

Vanguard

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The leading units at the front of an army or fleet.(by extension) The persons at the forefront of any group or movement.

Example sentence: It is the unshakeable determination and will of our Party to put forward young people in the vanguard of the ranks of the general onward march as masters of the times and help them put up the doorplate of a thriving country before anybody else.