advance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈvɑːns/
ipa: /ədˈvæns/
ipa: [ədˈvɛəns]
ipa: [ədˈvɛənts]
ipa: /ədˈvɐːns/
rhymes: -ɑːns
rhymes: -æns
Forms: form: advances
form: advaunce
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Italic *ap
Latin ab
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Proto-Italic *anti
Latin ante
Late Latin ab ante
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Vulgar Latin *abanteāre
Old French avancierbor.
Middle English avauncen
English advance
From Middle English avauncen, avancen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman avauncier, from Vulgar Latin *abanteāre, from Late Latin ab ante, from Latin ab + ante (“before”). ⟨d⟩ added in analogy to Latin ad- (cf. Middle French advancer). Compare avaunt.
Senses: examples: text: an advance in health or knowledge
text: an advance in rank or office
glosses: A forward move; improvement or progression.
examples: text: Could he ask the cashier privately for an advance? No, the cashier was no good, no damn good: he wouldn't give an advance.
ref: 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “Counterparts”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 109:
text: I shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances.
ref: 1780, John Jay, letter dated November 21:
glosses: An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
examples: text: an advance on the prime cost of goods
glosses: An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
examples: text: For, if it were of any use to recall matters of fact, what is more notorious, than that prince's applying himself first to the church of England? and upon their refusal to fall in with his measures, making the like advances to the dissenters of all kinds, who readily and almost universally complied with him
ref: 1708, Jonathan Swift, The Sentiments of a Church of England Man with Respect to Religion and Government:
text: 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.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
text: I felt vaguely he was a sneak, and remained quite unmollified by advances on his side, which, in a boy's barbarous fashion, unless it suited me to be magnanimous, I haughtily ignored.
ref: 1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt:
text: [A]nd Rosamund though quite a genteelly brought up young lady had responded to his advances by slapping his face.
ref: 1945, Tom Ronan, Strangers on the Ophir, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 59:
text: In public he put on a performance that was at once outraged and outrageous, but usually he did not carry grudges into his private life. Exuding the backslapping air of a socializer who loved to gamble and drink, he could not understand why people whose careers he had ruined and publicly ridiculed would be hostile to his friendly advances.
ref: 1983 August 13, John Kyper, “Flamboyant Inquisitor”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 14:
glosses: An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
Derived terms: black advance
cash advance
counteradvance
in advance
in advance of
readvance