advance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈvɑːns/
ipa: /ədˈvæns/
ipa: [ədˈvɛəns]
ipa: [ədˈvɛənts]
ipa: /ədˈvɐːns/
rhymes: -ɑːns
rhymes: -æns
Forms: form: advances
form: advancing
form: advanced
form: advanced
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: Some see it as in effect the end of the Syrian uprising that began with peaceful protests against Assad’s police state in 2011, with opposition fighters working to advance Turkey’s interests at the expense of the revolution’s goals.
ref: 2018 January 26, Kareem Shaheen, The Guardian:
glosses: To promote or advantage.
To help the progress of (something); to further.
examples: text: After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Esther 3:1:
text: This, 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[…]
ref: 1838, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: American Stationers’ Company; John B. Russell, →OCLC:
glosses: To promote or advantage.
To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote.
examples: text: Whence and what art thou, execrable shape, / That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance / Thy miscreated front athwart my way / To yonder gates?
ref: 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: To move forward in space or time.
To move or push (something) forwards, especially forcefully.
examples: text: [S]in and sorrow it were, considering the hardships of this noble and gallant knight, no whit mentioning or weighing those we ourselves have endured, if we were now either to advance or retard the hour of refection beyond the time when the viands are fit to be set before us.
ref: 1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter III, in The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 95:
glosses: To move forward in space or time.
To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten.
examples: text: I advanced towards him step by step, stopping sometimes for fear of waking him.
ref: 1829, Marchioness of Lemington, Rosina, or the Virtuous Country Maid, Ninth ed.
text: This army recaptured Wu-chʻang, on the right bank of the Yangtze, in 1854, reached Chen-chiang four years later, advanced to Chiu-chiang and threatened Nanking.
ref: 2003, C.J. Shane, editor, China (The History of Nations), Greenhaven Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 67:
glosses: To move forward in space or time.
To move forwards; to approach.
examples: text: “I had intended to ask you to advance me a hundred pounds,” said Phineas.
ref: 1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn:
text: On the urgent representations of several parties of the first importance in the City of London, the bank advanced 120,000l. to the Governor and Company of the Copper Miners […].
ref: 1871, James William Gilbart, The Principles and Practice of Banking:
glosses: To move forward in space or time.
To provide (money or other value) before it is due, or in expectation of some work; to lend.
examples: text: Some ne'er advance a Judgement of their own, / But catch the spreading notion of the Town […].
ref: 1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:
text: Ghosts, it is advanced, either do not exist at all, or else, like the stars at noonday, they are there all the time and it is we who cannot see them. The stories in the following pages were written on the second of these assumptions.
ref: 1935, Oliver Onions, “Credo”, in The Collected Ghost Stories:
glosses: To move forward in space or time.
To put forward (an idea, argument etc.); to propose.
examples: text: Earlier the caller said men were more likely to be in senior positions. Clegg says that's partly because the current maternity leave arrangements make it difficult for women to advance in the workplace.
ref: 2014 April 24, Andrew Sparrow, The Guardian:
glosses: To move forward in space or time.
To make progress; to do well, to succeed.
examples: text: I can promise you that you will feel even less humorous as the evening advances.
ref: 1927, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes:
glosses: To move forward in space or time.
To move forward in time; to progress towards completion.
examples: text: The fringed Curtaines of thine eyes aduance.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: To raise, be raised.
To raise; to lift or elevate.
examples: text: In February last […] bakers advanced the price of bread sold over the counter in London from 8d. to 8½d. per quartern loaf.
ref: 1924 July 16, The Times:
glosses: To raise, be raised.
To raise or increase (a price, rate).
glosses: To raise, be raised.
To increase (a number or amount).
glosses: To raise, be raised.
To make a higher bid at an auction.
Synonyms: raise
elevate
exalt
aggrandize
improve
heighten
accelerate
allege
adduce
assign
Derived terms: advanceable
advancement
advance the ball
advancingly
advancive
readvance
unadvancing