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adjective
1.
Farther along in physical or mental development.  "Children in the advanced classes in elementary school read far above grade average"
2.
Comparatively late in a course of development.  "An advanced state of exhaustion"
3.
Ahead of the times.  Synonyms: forward-looking, innovative, modern.  "Had advanced views on the subject" , "A forward-looking corporation" , "Is British industry innovative enough?"
4.
At a higher level in training or knowledge or skill.  "An advanced text in physics" , "Special seminars for small groups of advanced students at the University"
5.
Ahead in development; complex or intricate.  Synonym: sophisticated.  "A sophisticated electronic control system"
6.
Far along in time.  Synonym: ripe.  "Advanced in years" , "A ripe old age" , "The ripe age of 90"
7.
(of societies) highly developed especially in technology or industry.  "An advanced country technologically"
8.
Situated ahead or going before.  Synonyms: advance, in advance.  "At that time the most advanced outpost was still east of the Rockies"


Advance

verb
(past & past part. advanced; pres. part. advancing)
1.
Move forward, also in the metaphorical sense.  Synonyms: go on, march on, move on, pass on, progress.
2.
Bring forward for consideration or acceptance.  Synonym: throw out.
3.
Increase or raise.  Synonyms: boost, supercharge.
4.
Contribute to the progress or growth of.  Synonyms: boost, encourage, further, promote.
5.
Cause to move forward.  Synonym: bring forward.
6.
Obtain advantages, such as points, etc..  Synonyms: gain, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, win.  "After defeating the Knicks, the Blazers pulled ahead of the Lakers in the battle for the number-one playoff berth in the Western Conference"
7.
Develop in a positive way.  Synonyms: come along, come on, get along, get on, progress, shape up.  "My plants are coming along" , "Plans are shaping up"
8.
Develop further.
9.
Give a promotion to or assign to a higher position.  Synonyms: elevate, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade.  "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms" , "I got promoted after many years of hard work"
10.
Pay in advance.
11.
Move forward.  Synonym: set ahead.
12.
Rise in rate or price.  Synonym: gain.



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... Night was already far advanced when he reached the damp subterranean cell of Bartolomeo and rattled the rusty hooks that held the bolts. The major having fallen into a pleasant revery in which he beheld visions of his future greatness as a martyr to duty's ...
— The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I (of 2) • Alexandre Dumas pere
... [They advanced another hour and a half through the same expanse of flooded treeless waste, passing numbers of small fish-weirs set in such a manner as to catch the fish on their way back to the Lake, but seeing nothing of the owners, who had either hidden themselves ...
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... up fairly regularly in the advanced areas unless the ration-party becomes lost, drops a portion or makes an appointment with a 9.2. There is a constant daily issue of hard-wearing substance camouflaged as "biscuit," intended originally for the heel of concrete ships and for bomb-proof blockhouses. It can be ...
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... tyrants of Pherae, though the several cities seem each to have possessed a nominally independent government. The Greek peoples were disunited in fact and unfitted for union by temperament. The twofold desire, felt by almost all the more advanced Greek peoples, for independence on the one hand, and for 'hegemony' or leadership among other peoples, on the other, rendered any effective combination impossible, and made the relations of states ...
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