Advance

English

Verb

Advance (third-person singular simple present Advances, present participle advancing, simple past and past participle advanced)

To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten.
To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show.
To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand.
To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate.
(intransitive) To move forwards, to approach.

Noun

Advance (plural Advances)

A forward move.
An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due.
(in the plural) An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.

Adjective

Advance (comparative more Advance, superlative most Advance)

Completed before need or a milestone event.
Preceding.
Forward.

Adjectives for Advance

striking; logical; unflinching; subsequent; economic; orderly; general; sharp; courageous; intellectual; triumphant; successive; perpetual; incessant; definite; studious; haughty; unprecedented; spectacular; prodigious; dizzy; substantial; marked; distinct; material; noteworthy; trifling; modest; tenacious; reconnoitering; arduous; implacable; cautious; glacial; faltering; pugnacious; jaunty; ominous; bold; persistent; menacing; notable.

Verbs for Advance

characterize -; check -; constitute -; discourage -; facilitate -; fear -; hinder -; mark -; pioneer in -s; reject -s; smile at -; - culminates; - terminates.

Adverbs for Advance

aggressively; cautiously; boldly; jauntily; ominously; menacingly; reluctantly; tremblingly; pugnaciously; progressively; ungracefully; simultaneously; hesitantly; secretly; persistently; hopelessly; inexorably; eagerly; notably; triumphantly; timidly; fearfully; compactly; materially; impulsively; awkwardly; unflinchingly; unprecedentediy; spectacularly; substantially; markedly.

Synonyms for Advance

raise, elevate, exalt, aggrandize, improve, heighten, accelerate, allege, adduce, assign, go onward, proceed, continue, progress, promote, increase, rise, lend, supply.

Antonyms for Advance

recede, turn, stop, yield, return, withdraw, hesitate, stand, halt, retrogress.

Derived terms

Thesaurus

Brownian movement; Great Leap Forward; Wall Street loan; abet; accelerate; access; accession; accommodate with; accommodation; accomplishment; accost; accretion; accrual; accrue; accruement; acculturate; accumulate; accumulation; achieve success; act for; addition; adduce; advance; advance against; advance upon; advancement; advancing; advantage; advent; afflux; affluxion; aggrandize; aggrandizement; ahead of time; aid; air; allege; ameliorate; amelioration; amend; amendment; amplification; anabasis; angular motion; answer; appreciate; appreciation; approach; approaching; appropinquate; appropinquation; approximate; approximation; appulse; array; arrive; ascend; ascending; ascent; asking price; assert; assist; augmentation; avail; axial motion; back; back up; backflowing; backing; backward motion; balloon; ballooning; be a success; be instrumental; be right; bear down on; bear down upon; bear fruit; bear up; befit; befitting; before; beforehand; benefit; better; bettering; betterment; beyond; bid; bloat; bloating; bloom; blossom; blossoming; boom; boost; bowl; break bounds; break no bones; break through; breakthrough; breed; bring before; bring forward; bring on; bring to bear; bring up; broach; broaden; broadening; budge; buildup; bunt; butt; call loan; call money; career; change; change place; circle; cite; civilize; climb; climbing; close; close in; close with; collateral loan; come; come along; come closer; come forward; come near; come on; come through; come up; coming; coming near; coming toward; commend to attention; conduce to; confront; continue; contribute to; counterattack; course; cover ground; crescendo; current; cut a swath; decide; demand loan; deploy; deposit; descend; descending; descent; determine; develop; development; developmental change; do good; do no harm; do the trick; do well; downward motion; draw near; draw nigh; drift; driftage; drive; ebb; ebbing; edema; edify; educate; elaboration; elapse; elevate; elevation; emend; encounter; encourage; encroach; endure; enhance; enhancement; enjoy prosperity; enlargement; enlighten; ennoble; ennoblement; enrich; enrichment; eugenics; euthenics; evolute; evolution; evolutionary change; evolve; evolvement; evolving; exalt; exaltation; expansion; expedite; expediting; expedition; expire; explication; expose; extension; external loan; facilitate; facilitation; farewell; fatten; favor; feeler; fill the bill; fit; flank; flight; flit; float a loan; flood; flow; flow on; flower; flowering; flowing toward; flux; fly; foreign loan; forge ahead; forthcoming; forward; forward motion; forwardal; forwarding; foster; further; furtherance; furthering; gain; gain ground; gain strength; gain upon; gas; gather head; gather way; get ahead; get along; get on; get on swimmingly; get on well; get over; get there; glide; glorify; go; go ahead; go along; go around; go between; go by; go far; go fast; go forward; go on; go places; go round; go sideways; go straight; go too far; go up; go well; go-ahead; gradual change; graduate; graduation; greatening; grow; grow better; growth; gush; gyrate; hasten; have it made; headway; heighten; help; helping along; hike; imminence; immortalize; impel; improve; improve upon; improvement; in advance; in front of; increase; increment; infiltrate; inflation; influence; infringe; intensify; introduce; intrude; invade; invitation; irrupt; jump; kick upstairs; knight; knighting; know no bounds; lapse; lard; last; launch; launch an attack; lay; lay before; lay down; lead to; leap; lease-lend; lend; lend wings to; lend-lease; lending; lending at interest; lift; loan; loan-shark; loan-sharking; loaning; long-term loan; look up; magnify; make a breakthrough; make a motion; make a success; make an improvement; make an inroad; make for; make good; make good time; make head against; make headway; make it; make progress; make progress against; make strides; make the scene; make up leeway; march; march against; march upon; marshal; maturate; maturation; mature; mediate; meliorate; melioration; mellow; mend; mending; minister to; moneylending; moot; mount; mount an attack; mounting; move; move forward; move over; multiplication; multiply; narrow the gap; natural development; natural growth; near; nearing; nearness; negotiate a loan; nonviolent change; not come amiss; nurture; oblique motion; offer; offer a resolution; offering; oncoming; ongoing; onrush; onward course; open an offensive; open up; overstep; overstep the bounds; overture; pass; pass along; pass by; pass on; passage; passing; pay raise; pedal; perk up; pick up; pickup; plead; plunge; plunging; pole; policy loan; pose; posit; postulate; predicate; prefer; preferential treatment; preferment; preliminary approach; prepay; prepayment; present; presentation; press on; proceed; produce; productiveness; proffer; proficiency; profit; progress; progression; progressiveness; proliferate; proliferation; promote; promotion; propel; propose; proposition; propound; prosper; proximate; proximation; push; push forward; put forth; put forward; put it to; quicken; radial motion; raise; rally; random motion; recommend; recovery; redound to; refine upon; reflowing; refluence; reflux; reform; regress; regression; restoration; retrogress; retrogression; revival; ripen; ripening; rise; rising; roll; roll on; rolling; rolling on; rotate; row; run; run its course; run on; run out; run up; rush; rushing; secured loan; serve; set; set before; set forth; set forward; shape up; shift; shoot up; short-term loan; shove; show improvement; shunt; shylocking; sideward motion; sidle up to; sink; sinking; skyrocket; slide; slip; snowball; snowballing; soar; soaring; socialize; special treatment; speed; speeding; spin; spread; start; stem; step forward; step up; sternway; stir; straighten out; stream; strengthen; strike; submission; submit; subserve; subside; subsiding; succeed; suggest; suit the occasion; surge; sweep; sweep along; swell; swelling; take off; tentative approach; thrust; time loan; traject; trajet; transfigure; transform; transgress; travel; treadle; trend; trespass; troll; trundle; tumescence; turn out well; turn the scale; unsecured loan; up; upbeat; upgrade; upgrading; uplift; upping; upsurge; upswing; uptrend; upturn; upward mobility; upward motion; usurp; usury; wane; wax; waxing; way; whirl; widen; widening; work

Etymology

From Old French avancer (French: avancer), from Late Latin abante, from ab + ante ‘before’. The spelling with d was a mistake, a- being supposed to be from Latin ad. Avaunt is an earlier form of the same source-word.