Advance
Pronunciation
- Southern England IPA: /É™dˈvÉ‘Ëns/
- Rhymes: -É‘Ëns
- US IPA: /ədˈvæns/
- Rhymes: -æns
Alternative forms
Origin
From Old French avancer (French: avancer), from Late Latin abante, from ab + ante ("before"). The spelling with d was a mistake, a- being supposed to be from Latin ad. Avaunt is an earlier form of the same source-word.
Full definition of advance
Verb
- To bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on.
- To raise; to elevate.They ... advanced their eyelids. — Shakespeare
- To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
- Bible, Esther iii. 1Ahasueres ... advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes.
- PrescottThis, however, was in time evaded by the monarchs, who advanced certain of their own retainers to a level with the ancient peers of the land...
- To accelerate the growth or progress of; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten.to advance the ripening of fruitto advance one's interests
- To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show.to advance an argument
- Alexander PopeSome ne'er advance a judgment of their own.
- To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
- To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand.Merchants often advance money on a contract or on goods consigned to them.
- To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate.to advance the price of goods
- (intransitive) To move forwards, to approach.He rose from his chair and advanced to greet me.
- (obsolete) To extol; to laud.
- Spensergreatly advancing his gay chivalry
Synonyms
- raise, elevate, exalt, aggrandize, improve, heighten, accelerate, allege, adduce, assign
Derived terms
Noun
advance
(plural advances)- A forward move; improvement or progression.an advance in health or knowledgean advance in rank or office
- An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
- JayI shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances.
- KentThe account was made up with intent to show what advances had been made.
- An addition to the price; rise in price or value.an advance on the prime cost of goods
- (in the plural) An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
- Jonathan SwiftHe made the like advances to the dissenters.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot (novel), chapter 4:As the sun fell, so did our spirits. I had tried to make advances to the girl again; but she would have none of me, and so I was not only thirsty but otherwise sad and downhearted.