advance

Meanings

Verb

• To promote or advantage.
• To move forward in space or time.
• To raise, be raised.

Noun

• 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.

Adjective

• Completed before necessary or a milestone event.
• Preceding.
• Forward.

Related

Similar words

• raise, elevate, exalt, aggrandize, improve, heighten, accelerate, allege, adduce, assign

Opposite words

• regress
• retract
• regress, regression

Origin

• From Middle English avauncen, avancen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman avauncer, avancer, avancier (French avancer), from Vulgar Latin *abantiāre, from Late Latin abante, from Latin ab + ante. ⟨d⟩ added in analogy to Latin ad- (cf. Middle French advancer). Compare avaunt.