advance
Meanings
- To promote or advantage.
- To help the progress of (something); to further.
- To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote.
- To move forward in space or time.
- To move or push (something) forwards, especially forcefully.
- To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten.
- To move forwards; to approach.
- To provide (money or other value) before it is due, or in expectation of some work; to lend.
- To put forward (an idea, argument etc.); to propose.
- To make progress; to do well, to succeed.
- To move forward in time; to progress towards completion.
- To raise, be raised.
- A forward move; improvement or progression.
- An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
- An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
- An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
- Completed before necessary or a milestone event.
- Preceding.
- Forward.
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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 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.