advance
verbEtymology
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 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.
- derived from ab
- derived from ab ante
- derived from *abanteāre✻
- derived from avancier
- inherited from avauncen
Definitions
To promote or advantage.
- 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.
To move forward in space or time.
- Whence and what art thou, execrable shape, / That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance / Thy miscreated front athwart my way / To yonder gates?
To raise, be raised.
- The fringed Curtaines of thine eyes aduance.
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A forward move
A forward move; improvement or progression.
- an advance in health or knowledge
- an advance in rank or office
An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due
An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
- 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.
An addition to the price
An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
- an advance on the prime cost of goods
An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
- 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.
Completed before necessary or a milestone event.
- He made an advance payment on the prior shipment to show good faith.
Preceding.
- The advance man came a month before the candidate.
Forward.
- The scouts found a site for an advance base.
The neighborhood
- synonymimprove
- synonymassign
- antonymregress
- antonymretract
- antonymretreat
- antonymregressionantonym(s) of “forward move”
Derived
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
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at advance. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at advance. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at advance
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA