"Avatard" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Avatards [plural]
Etymology: From Avatar + -tard. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|avatar|tard|alt1=Avatar}} Avatar + -tard Head templates: {{en-noun}} Avatard (plural Avatards)
  1. (fandom slang) A fan of the Avatar: The Last Airbender multimedia franchise. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Avatar: The Last Airbender, Fans (people)
    Sense id: en-Avatard-en-noun-4Jy5o5wJ Disambiguation of Avatar: The Last Airbender: 83 17 Disambiguation of Fans (people): 70 30 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -tard, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 71 29 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -tard: 69 31 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 74 26 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 89 11 Topics: lifestyle
  2. (fandom slang) A fan of the Avatar media franchise. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-Avatard-en-noun-1Cnl-fMC Topics: lifestyle

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          "text": "And for the Avatards out there, some possible spoilers from the panel: […] (boy and girl on the left re-enacting script of Mai and Zuko's first kiss explored only in the Avatar comics, but with the boy=Mai and girl=Zuko just for fun)",
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          "ref": "2008 December 18, CD Covington 🐀 (@exaggerated), Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-04-18:",
          "text": "I think I'm finally satisfied with this fic. Let's share it with other Avatards and see what *they* think.",
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          "ref": "2009 January 29, Jeff Yang, “'Avatar' an Asian thing- why isn't the cast?”, in SFGate, archived from the original on 2012-11-02; quoted in ““Avatar” an Asian Thing—Why Isn’t the Cast?”, in Ken White, Race, the Hollywood Way: Current Trends, Pearson Learning Solutions, 2015, →ISBN, pages 245–246:",
          "text": "Last month, with the unveiling of the film’s principal cast, the fans’ worst fears were realized, prompting self-proclaimed “Avatards”—chief among them ‘toon titans Yang and Kim—to launch a protest that’s generated torrents of both support and criticism. […] In short, these casting decisions ring false to the show’s spirit; the very spirit that has transfixed millions of young fans and brought legions of Avatards together into a passionate community.",
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          "ref": "2013 September 22, Mitchel Clow, “SeptBender: The best ‘The Legend of Korra’ minor characters (GIFs)”, in Hypable, archived from the original on 2018-01-31:",
          "text": "The love Avatards have for this minor character is baffling.",
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          "ref": "2009 December 22, “Nerd, nerd, nerd is the word”, in Daily News, page 28:",
          "text": "That young man who won’t stop talking about the new movie “Avatar” and is trying to learn the language of the Na’vi people so he can tell his girlfriend, if he ever gets one, that he loves her in this imaginary tongue? He’s just an . . . Avatard.",
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          "ref": "2010 August 26, Sally Kline, “‘Avatar’ comes back to big screen in 3-D”, in The San Francisco Examiner, page 31:",
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          "text": "These people in the audience were Avatards, most of us are Avatards. We buy that shit hook line, and sinker. After all, who am I to doubt the audacity of the endeavor or the mind-numbing execution by the self pronounced \"King of the World\"? I had to curtail my laughter, I had to become a fan; I feared if I didn't, the Avatards would take me out back and stone me with made up rocks from Pandora.",
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          "text": "Though much derided since, Avatar was a great cinematic event, a genuine wow. The problem is that wow faded quickly; despite millions going to see it on the big screen, almost none of us became Avatards.",
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