advance
Part of speech: verb
noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Italic *ap
Vulgar 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
Vulgar Latin ante
Vulgar Latin ab ante
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Vulgar 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.
Inflected forms:
form: advances
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: advancing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: advanced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: advanced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: advaunce
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: advances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: advaunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more advance
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most advance
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: advaunce
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To promote or advantage.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To promote or advantage.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
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[…]
gloss: To move forward in space or time.
pos: verb
examples: Whence and what art thou, execrable shape, / That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance / Thy miscreated front athwart my way / To yonder gates?
gloss: To move forward in space or time.
pos: verb
examples: [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.
gloss: To move forward in space or time.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I advanced towards him step by step, stopping sometimes for fear of waking him.
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.
gloss: To move forward in space or time.
pos: verb
examples: “I had intended to ask you to advance me a hundred pounds,” said Phineas.
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 […].
gloss: To move forward in space or time.
pos: verb
examples: Some ne'er advance a Judgement of their own, / But catch the spreading notion of the Town […].
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.
gloss: To move forward in space or time.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To move forward in space or time.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I can promise you that you will feel even less humorous as the evening advances.
gloss: To raise, be raised.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: The fringed Curtaines of thine eyes aduance.
gloss: To raise, be raised.
pos: verb
examples: In February last […] bakers advanced the price of bread sold over the counter in London from 8d. to 8½d. per quartern loaf.
gloss: To raise, be raised.
pos: verb
gloss: To raise, be raised.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: A forward move; improvement or progression.
pos: noun
examples: an advance in health or knowledge
an advance in rank or office
gloss: An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
pos: noun
examples: Could he ask the cashier privately for an advance? No, the cashier was no good, no damn good: he wouldn't give an advance.
I shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances.
gloss: An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
pos: noun
examples: an advance on the prime cost of goods
gloss: An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
often
examples: 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
And so saying he scampered off to the hill, to the amusement of honest Plat; and it is likely lost no time in making his advances to the young widow.
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.
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.
[A]nd Rosamund though quite a genteelly brought up young lady had responded to his advances by slapping his face.
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.
gloss: Completed before necessary or a milestone event.
pos: adj
examples: He made an advance payment on the prior shipment to show good faith.
In general, if you are applying for adjustment of status (a Green Card) and leave the United States without the appropriate travel documentation (for example, an advance parole document), you may not be allowed to reenter the United States when you return.
gloss: Preceding.
pos: adj
examples: The advance man came a month before the candidate.
gloss: Forward.
pos: adj
examples: The scouts found a site for an advance base.
Synonyms: improve
assign
Antonyms: regress
retract
retreat
regression
Derived words: advanceable
advancement
advance the ball
advancingly
advancive
unadvancing
readvance
black advance
cash advance
counteradvance
in advance
in advance of
advance angle
advance copy
advance directive
advance fee fraud
advance fee scam
advance-guard
advance guard
advance man
advance payment
advance person
advance woman
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: përshpejtoj
lang: Bulgarian
word: развивам
roman: razvivam
lang: Catalan
word: progressar
lang: Danish
word: fremme
lang: Esperanto
word: antaŭenigi
lang: Esperanto
word: antaŭenpuŝi
lang: Esperanto
word: antaŭenmovi
lang: Esperanto
word: akceli
lang: Finnish
word: edistää
lang: Finnish
word: kiihdyttää
lang: Hungarian
word: előmozdít
lang: Hungarian
word: elősegít
lang: Italian
word: progredire
lang: Japanese
word: 進展する
roman: shinten suru
lang: Māori
word: whakawhanake
lang: Polish
word: postąpić
lang: Portuguese
word: progredir
lang: Russian
word: развива́ть
roman: razvivátʹ
lang: Russian
word: разви́ть
roman: razvítʹ
lang: Spanish
word: progresar
lang: Tagalog
word: sumulong
lang: Turkish
word: ilerlemek
lang: Ukrainian
word: розвива́ти
roman: rozvyváty
lang: Ukrainian
word: прогресува́ти
roman: prohresuváty