[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

advance \advance"\, 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.
      1913 webster

   2. to raise; to elevate. archaic
      1913 webster

            they . . . advanced their eyelids.    --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. to raise to a higher rank; to promote.
      1913 webster

            ahasueres . . . advanced him, and set his seat above
            all the princes.                      --esther iii.
                                                  1.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   5. to bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show;
      as, to advance an argument.
      1913 webster

            some ne'er advance a judgment of their own. --pope.
      1913 webster

   6. to make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   8. to raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate;
      as, to advance the price of goods.
      1913 webster

   9. to extol; to laud. obs.
      1913 webster

            greatly advancing his gay chivalry.   --spenser.
      1913 webster

   syn: to raise; elevate; exalt; aggrandize; improve; heighten;
        accelerate; allege; adduce; assign.
        1913 webster
see also:
advanced advancing avaunt 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

advanced \advanced"\, a.
   1. in the van or front.
      1913 webster

   2. in the front or before others, as regards progress or
      ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers.
      1913 webster

   3. far on in life or time.
      1913 webster

            a gentleman advanced in years, with a hard
            experience written in his wrinkles.   --hawthorne.
      1913 webster

   advanced guard, a detachment of troops which precedes the
      march of the main body.
      1913 webster
see also:
advanced guard 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

advanced
     adj 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" syn: advanceda
     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: 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: sophisticated
     6: far along in time; "a man of advanced age"; "advanced in
        years"; "a ripe old age"; "the ripe age of 90" syn: 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: advancea, advanceda, in advancep
see also:
advanceda forward-looking innovative modern sophisticated ripe 
advancea in advancep 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

109 moby thesaurus words for "advanced":
   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

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