To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
To raise; to elevate.
To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
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.
To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument.
To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
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.
To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.
To extol; to laud.
To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.
To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.
To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted.
The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.
Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office.
An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.
The first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; - usually in the plural.
A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand.
Before in place, or beforehand in time; - used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication.
An agreement; a covenant; a promise.
Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; - opposed to backward.
Near, or at the fore part; in advance of something else; as, the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet.
Ready; prompt; strongly inclined; in an ill sense, overready; too hasty.
Ardent; eager; earnest; in an ill sense, less reserved or modest than is proper; bold; confident; as, the boy is too forward for his years.
Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season; as, the grass is forward, or forward for the season; we have a forward spring.
To help onward; to advance; to promote; to accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in improvement.
To send forward; to send toward the place of destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter.
