Word: advance Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o 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 Latin ab ante Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -āre 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. Pronunciation: /ədˈvɑːns/, /ədˈvæns/, [ədˈvɛəns], [ədˈvɛənts], /ədˈvɐːns/ 1. To promote or advantage. Example: 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. 2. To promote or advantage. Example: 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. Example: 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[…] 3. To move forward in space or time. Example: Whence and what art thou, execrable shape, / That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance / Thy miscreated front athwart my way / To yonder gates? 4. To move forward in space or time. Example: [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. 5. To move forward in space or time. Labels: intransitive Example: I advanced towards him step by step, stopping sometimes for fear of waking him. Example: 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. 6. To move forward in space or time. Example: “I had intended to ask you to advance me a hundred pounds,” said Phineas. Example: 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 […]. 7. To move forward in space or time. Example: Some ne'er advance a Judgement of their own, / But catch the spreading notion of the Town […]. Example: 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. 8. To move forward in space or time. Labels: intransitive Example: 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. 9. To move forward in space or time. Labels: intransitive Example: I can promise you that you will feel even less humorous as the evening advances. 10. To raise, be raised. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: The fringed Curtaines of thine eyes aduance. 11. To raise, be raised. Example: In February last […] bakers advanced the price of bread sold over the counter in London from 8d. to 8½d. per quartern loaf. 12. To raise, be raised. 13. To raise, be raised. Labels: intransitive