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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ADV'ANCED, pp. Moved forward; promoted; improved; furnished beforehand; situated in front, or before the rest; also old, having reached the decline of life; as, advanced in years; an advanced age.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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1: farther along in physical or mental development; "the child's skeletal age was classified as `advanced'"; "children in the advanced classes in elementary school read far above grade average"
2: comparatively late in a course of development; "the illness had reached an advanced stage"; "an advanced state of exhaustion"
3: ahead of the times; "the advanced teaching methods"; "had advanced views on the subject"; "a forward-looking corporation"; "is British industry innovative enough?" [syn: advanced, forward-looking, innovative, modern]
4: at a higher level in training or knowledge or skill; "an advanced degree"; "an advanced text in physics"; "special seminars for small groups of advanced students at the University"
5: ahead in development; complex or intricate; "advanced technology"; "a sophisticated electronic control system" [syn: advanced, sophisticated]
6: far along in time; "a man of advanced age"; "advanced in years"; "a ripe old age"; "the ripe age of 90" [syn: advanced, ripe]
7: (of societies) highly developed especially in technology or industry; "advanced societies"; "an advanced country technologically"
8: situated ahead or going before; "an advance party"; "at that time the most advanced outpost was still east of the Rockies" [syn: advance, advanced, in advance]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1534 1. far on in time or course <a man advanced in years> 2. a. being beyond others in progress or ideas <tastes a bit too advanced for the times> b. being beyond the elementary or introductory <advanced chemistry> c. greatly developed beyond an initial stage <the most advanced scientific methods> <advanced weapons systems>

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Advance Ad*vance", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Advanced; p. pr. & vb. n. Advancing(#).] [OE. avancen, avauncen, F. avancer, fr. a supposed LL. abantiare; ab + ante (F. avant) before. The spelling with d was a mistake, a- being supposed to be fr. L. ad. See Avaunt.] 1. To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on. 2. To raise; to elevate. [Archaic] They . . . advanced their eyelids. --Shak. 3. To raise to a higher rank; to promote. Ahasueres . . . advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes. --Esther iii. 1. 4. To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests. 5. To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument. Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own. --Pope. 6. To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten. 7. To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him. 8. To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods. 9. To extol; to laud. [Obs.] Greatly advancing his gay chivalry. --Spenser. Syn: To raise; elevate; exalt; aggrandize; improve; heighten; accelerate; allege; adduce; assign.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Advanced Ad*vanced", a. 1. In the van or front. 2. In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers. 3. Far on in life or time. A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles. --Hawthorne. Advanced guard, a detachment of troops which precedes the march of the main body.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. An advanced system, method, or design is modern and has been developed from an earlier version of the same thing. Without more training or advanced technical skills, they'll lose their jobs. = up-to-date ADJ: usu ADJ n 2. A country that is advanced has reached a high level of industrial or technological development. ...a technologically advanced society. ADJ 3. An advanced student has already learned the basic facts of a subject and is doing more difficult work. An advanced course of study is designed for such students. The course is suitable for beginners and advanced students... ? elementary ADJ: usu ADJ n 4. Something that is at an advanced stage or level is at a late stage of development. 'Medicare' is available to victims of advanced kidney disease... ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

a bit previous, a la mode, advanced in life, advanced in years, adventurous, aged, along in years, ameliorated, ancient, avant-garde, beautified, bettered, broad, broad-minded, civilized, contemporary, converted, cultivated, cultured, daring, developed, educated, elderly, embellished, enhanced, enriched, exploratory, far ahead, far out, fashionable, forward, forward-looking, gray, gray with age, gray-haired, gray-headed, grown old, half-baked, half-cocked, hasty, hoar, hoary, ill-considered, improved, impulsive, in, inaugural, mod, modern, modernistic, modernized, modish, newfashioned, not firm, now, old, old as Methuselah, original, overhasty, oversoon, patriarchal, perfected, polished, preceding, precipitate, precocious, preliminary, premature, present-day, present-time, previous, progressive, radical, refined, reformed, rushed, senectuous, streamlined, tolerant, too early, too soon, transfigured, transformed, twentieth-century, ultra-ultra, ultramodern, uncrystallized, unjelled, unmatured, unmeditated, unpremeditated, unprepared, unripe, untimely, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, venerable, venturesome, way out, white, white with age, white-bearded, white-crowned, white-haired, wide, wrinkled, wrinkly, years old