advance
To promote or advantage.
Verb 3 meanings
To promote or advantage.
To move forward in space or time.
To raise, be raised.
Noun 3 meanings
A forward move; improvement or progression.
“an advance in health or knowledge”
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 advance on the prime cost of goods”
Adjective 3 meanings
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.”
Etymology
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.
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ADVANCE at a glance
ADVANCE has 7 letters and scores 13 points in Scrabble (A 1 + D 2 + V 4 + A 1 + N 1 + C 3 + E 1) and 16 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,186 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with advance
All rhymes- SINCE7
- ONCE6
- EXPERIENCE21
- CHANCE13
- PERFORMANCE20
- EVIDENCE14
- SCIENCE11
- CONFERENCE17
- DIFFERENCE19
- INSURANCE11
- DANCE8
- DISTANCE11
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