Definition:
- (v. t.) To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
- (v. t.) To raise; to elevate.
- (v. t.) To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
- (v. t.) To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests.
- (v. t.) To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument.
- (v. t.) To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
- (v. t.) To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him.
- (v. t.) To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.
- (v. t.) To extol; to laud.
- (v. i.) To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.
- (v. i.) To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.
- (v. i.) To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted.
- (v.) The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.
- (v.) Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office.
- (v.) An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.
- (v.) The first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural.
- (v.) A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand.
- (a.) Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication.
Compare advance with other words:
advance vs. fascinate
advance vs. assault
advance vs. excel
adance vs. advance
advance vs. proficient
advance vs. tolerable
advance vs. progressive
advance vs. preliminary
advance vs. maximize
advance vs. evolve
advance vs. prepayment
advance vs. recede
advance vs. love
advance vs. expert
advance vs. expedite
advance vs. strengthen
advance vs. propel
advance vs. optimize
advance vs. growth
advance vs. prosperity
advance vs. former
advance vs. aid
advance vs. outslide
advance vs. vaunce
advance vs. predoom
advance vs. promove
advance vs. prest
advance vs. preneed
advance vs. propose
advance vs. pro
advance vs. basic
advance vs. invention
advance vs. effective
advance vs. develop
advance vs. assist
advance vs. continue
advance vs. professional
advance vs. word
advance vs. mobile
advance vs. behaviour
advance vs. foster
advance vs. advent
advance vs. favor
advance vs. support
advance vs. reprehensible
advance vs. demonstration
advance vs. war
advance vs. military
advance vs. proceed
advance vs. preconcerted
advance vs. advancer
advance vs. reso
advance vs. forewarning
advance vs. outrider
advance vs. inroad
advance vs. stagnate
advance vs. postpaid
advance vs. predetermined
advance vs. bridgehead
advance vs. prepone
advance vs. steal
advance vs. courtship
advance vs. flirt
advance vs. preview
advance vs. further
advance vs. development
advance vs. advanced
advance vs. encroach
advance vs. preferment
advance vs. triangulation
advance vs. encroachment
advance vs. imprest
advance vs. dignify
advance vs. rotate
advance vs. premeditated
advance vs. improvement
advance vs. predict
advance vs. unplanned
advance vs. foreshadow
advance vs. opportunist
advance vs. prefer
advance vs. reservation
advance vs. sidle
advance vs. leapfrog
advance vs. forge
advance vs. bye
advance vs. dribble
advance vs. postpone
advance vs. premeditation
advance vs. progress
advance vs. mend
advance vs. backward
advance vs. prior
advance vs. forward
advance vs. prefiguration
advance vs. avaunt
advance vs. avaunce
advance vs. approximate
advance vs. ahead
advance vs. advantage
advance vs. milestone
advance vs. due
advance vs. overture
advance vs. credit
advance vs. move
advance vs. money
advance vs. assign
adduce vs. advance
advance vs. allege
advance vs. heighten
advance vs. improve
advance vs. aggrandize
advance vs. exalt
advance vs. elevate
advance vs. approach
advance vs. enhance
advance vs. supply
advance vs. furnish
advance vs. hasten
advance vs. raise
advance vs. promote
advance vs. thrust
advance vs. drive
access vs. advance
accelerate vs. advance
advance vs. early
advance vs. network
advance vs. advancement
advance vs. loan
advance vs. wolf
advance vs. march