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9,359 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

avant longtemps: before long, soon
avant notre ère: before the Common Era, before Christ
avant peu: before long
avant que: before
avant que de: before
avant tout: first and foremost, chiefly; first of all, before all else, first
avant toutes choses: first of all, first
avant-avant-hier: the day before the day before yesterday; three days ago
avant-bec: a pointed breakwater on the pier of a bridge
avant-bras: forearm
avant-centre: centre forward
avant-coureur: messenger, scout (person who runs ahead of the army to deliver news); harbinger, precursor, forerunner (thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of something)
avant-coureur: predictive; that predicts; foreshadowing
avant-dernier: penultimate, second-to-last, last but one
avant-garde: vanguard; avant-garde, firing line; vanguard, the most politicized and conscious part of the proletariat.
avant-gardisme: avant-gardism
avant-gardiste: avant-gardist (person in the avant-garde)
avant-gardiste: avant-gardist
avant-goût: foretaste, taster
avant-guerre: the pre-war period
avant-hier: two days ago; the day before yesterday
avant-main: forehand
avant-midi: morning (time from sunrise to noon)
avant-midis: (post-1990) plural of avant-midi
avant-mur: a wall erected in front of another wall; the outer part of a fortification
avant-plan: foreground (elements of an image which lie closest to the picture plane)
avant-port: outer harbour
avant-poste: outpost
avant-première: a preview (of a film)
avant-projet: draft (first stages of a project)
avant-propos: foreword
avant-salle: anteroom
avant-scène: proscenium
avant-toit: eaves
avant-train: limber
avant-veille: the day before the eve; the day before yesterday
avantage: advantage (advantageous position); advantage
avantage absolu: absolute advantage
avantage comparatif: comparative advantage
avantage concurrentiel: competitive advantage
avantager: to favour; to give an advantage to
avantageusement: advantageously
avantageux: advantageous; haughty, pompous
avançon: snood (hair band, line attaching a fishhook)
avare: stingy, miserly
avare: scrooge, miser, skinflint
avarement: stingily
avarice: greed; avarice
avaricieusement: avariciously
avaricieux: avaricious; miserly; stingy
avarie: damage (to a vessel or goods it is carrying); deterioration
avarier: to go rotten, spoil
avarié: damaged; rotten
avatar: avatar; misadventures, incidents
avec: too, also
avec: with
avec armes et bagages: bag and baggage
avec brio: brilliantly; with verve; with panache
avec des bouts de ficelle: on a shoestring
avec des pieds de plomb: reluctantly