advancedadj.
/ədˈvɑːnst/, /ədˈvanst/, U.S. /ədˈvænst/ΚΠ
c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 815 Alle estatys of good condicioun Will noon of them offende his conscience;..Avaunsyd persownys holde residence Among ther parysshens make a departysoun Of ther tresours.
2. Raised in amount or intensity; increased.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective]
hardOE
heavyc1000
highOE
highlyOE
stourc1275
largec1330
intensec1400
violent1430
profoundc1450
vehementc1485
intensive1526
advanceda1533
vengeable1532
Herculean1602
well-advanced1602
deep1605
dense1732
abysmal1817
intensitive1835
holy1837
high-level1860
major1942
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. P.iijv In the most highest trees the force of wyndes is most aduanced.
1695 W. Lowndes Rep. Amendm. Silver Coins 77 This Advanced Price of the Silver has been growing for some time.
1782 W. Cowper Let. 23 Nov. (1981) II. 92 The advanced price of grain.
1823 T. Tooke Thoughts on High & Low Prices i. xi. 175 The consumption of the commodities which had been the objects of speculation was reduced by the advanced cost.
1870 Architect 3 Dec. 313/2 It would..be competent for the proposed designer of some highly elaborate art-work to submit a demand for an advanced rate of payment.
1914 H. W. Conn Social Heredity & Social Evol. vii. 200 It has been the special significance of modern history, particularly since the Reformation, to reconcile the advanced value of the individual with the increasing organization of society.
2010 Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 1 July 1 The suit alleges that 100 percent of the city's ambulance calls were billed at the advanced rate.
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a1577 G. Gascoigne Princelie Pleasures Kenelworth sig. A.iv, in Whole Wks. (1587) Sixe Trumpetters hugelie aduaunced, much exceeding the common stature of men.
1612 T. Adams Gallants Burden f. 11v When with weary limbes they haue ascended, and finde..flashes of Lightning, or crackes of Thunder, soonest endangering their aduanced heades, then they confesse..the low valley is safest.
1688 E. Bohun Geogr. Dict. sig. Ssv/1 A flourishing Town built upon an advanced Cliff.
1729 S. Switzer Introd. Gen. Syst. Hydrostaticks & Hydraulicks I. i. iii. 55 We moved up into more advanced Ground twenty or thirty Foot higher.
1867 W. W. Brown Negro in Amer. Rebellion xxxiii. 263 The enemy train their guns upon the colors, the roar of cannon and crack of rifle is heard, the advanced flag falls.
1895 A. Reym Life-contrast II. v. 62 When will these lowest members be brought up to the point of the advanced head?
4. Chiefly Military. Moved forward; standing or being to the front; esp. in advanced post, advanced works. See also advanced guard n. at Compounds.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [adjective] > other manoeuvres
Parthian1581
advanced?1611
turning1877
pincer1918
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xiii. 180 His round set enemies Let flie their lances; thundering, on his aduanced targe, But could not get his flesh.
a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) iii. iii. 100 He knew the ill estate of the place he was in, and judg'd rightly by the advanced works and demolitions the Cannon made, that he had but a short time to live.
1669 tr. Duc de Guise Mem. ii. 119 Their weariness of having been so long in arms was so great, that no man would tarry all night at the advanced Posts.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 293 Now we marched with a triumphing Enemy at our Heels, and at Naseby their advanced Parties attacked our Rear.
1795 W. Hotham in Ld. Nelson Disp. & Lett. (1845) II. 11 The French ships were seen by our advanced Frigates.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 138/1 ‘Advanced-works’ are those which are occasionally added to the ordinary works of a permanent front.
1919 W. Benn In Side Shows vi. 38 One night we send out a digging party to make a new advanced trench.
2002 N.Y. Times 16 Jan. a11/1 [American troops] can go to an advanced post to observe our operations, but definitely no combat role.
5.
a. Far on or ahead in any course of development; (hence) progressive, ahead of one's time.Occasionally mildly depreciative, spec. of a woman who advocates or favours women's rights or equality with men (now rare).
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the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [adjective] > advanced towards completion
forward1526
furtherly1571
forwardly1598
advanced1646
progressed1842
toward1893
the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [adjective] > having made progress or advanced
advanced1646
progressed1842
upgrown1848
developed1859
new-generation1963
fast-tracked1972
the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [adjective] > prepared or ready > mature or matured
digesta1398
ripea1398
fledge1398
concoct1534
seasoned1545
well-seasoned1545
ripened1561
seeded1567
fledged1579
thorough-seasoned1605
matured1626
well-matured1626
advanced1646
concocted1647
digested1657
well-digested1657
predigested1663
maturated1698
drop-ripe1724
well-developed1769
mellowed1798
fully-fledged1906
society > society and the community > social attitudes > [adjective] > discriminatory or inegalitarian > by sex > opposition to > advocate or supporter of
advanced1871
liberated1887
new womanish1894
the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [adjective] > having made progress or advanced > in politics
advanced1879
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. vii. 25 Our advanced beliefs are not to be built upon dictates. View more context for this quotation
1677 F. Bampfield All in One 113 Whether the Celestial Phænomena of the glorious Luminaries, can ever be reduced to any certain satisfactory Art, or improved into an advanced restaured Science, by vain Philosophy?
a1704 J. Locke Paraphr. 1 Cor. (1706) ii. 18 They were carnal, and not capable of those more advanced Truths, or any thing beyond the first Principles of Christianity.
1856 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic (ed. 4) I. iii. xi. §2 496 The most advanced [earlier edd. highest] truths of mathematics.
1871 N.-Y. Tribune 2 Feb. 4/4 One of the oddest instances of the short-sightedness of the ‘Advanced Female’ to the interests of her own cause was given in the petition recently offered to our State Legislature.
1879 Standard 25 Apr. He is an advanced Liberal.
1896 ‘M. Corelli’ Mighty Atom ii. 24 Two or three ugly ‘advanced’ young women who have brought their bicycles and go tearing about the country all day.
1938 D. Thomas Let. 23 Mar. (1987) 282 It's the intention of New Directions to ‘build’ me in America; advanced writing apparently sells very well over there, they're such culture-snobs.
1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 11 Jan. 101/2 On admission to this hospital the patient presented the picture of the advanced stage of malignant disease.
2010 N.Y. Times Mag. 20 June 40/2 Thanks to advanced medical technologies..the ‘oldest old’ have become the nation's most rapidly growing age group.
b. Far on in the course of life or time.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adjective] > late or well-advanced
highOE
late1583
onwarda1586
deep1601
far gone1607
advanced1653
tardive1905
1653 F. G. tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Artamenes I. ii. iii. 153 The innocence of infancy, the charms of youth, the fortitude of a more advanced age, and the wisdom of old age.
1749 L. Pilkington Mem. (new ed.) I. 4 The late Duke of Ormond..offered to confer on him the Honour of Knighthood; but he then being in an advanced Age..declined it.
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. 326 A very advanced season of life.
1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility I. vii. 81 To make every allowance for the colonel's advanced state of life.
1847 Brit. Q. Rev. Aug. 238 The Retractations of Augustine are very remarkable, as containing his own review, in advanced years, of his writings.
1863 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation 74 The season is too little advanced.
1939 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime i. 21 The day was already well advanced and no business done.
1986 ‘W. Trevor’ News from Ireland 48 Mr Unwill was a large man in his advanced sixties.
2002 N. Lebrecht Song of Names vi. 182 Assuring myself that her drabness and my advanced years are ample guarantors of probity, I invite her to dinner the following night.
c. Designating a qualification or course of study at a higher level than the elementary, esp. designating a degree which is (usually) superior to a bachelor's degree; of or relating to this. Cf. advanced level n., advanced student n. at Compounds.
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society > education > [adjective] > level of education
advanced1705
postgraduate1858
post-school1898
pre-college1903
pre-professional1909
post-primary1919
postgrad1933
1705 H. Ditton Gen. Laws Nature & Motion Pref. sig. A6v My Design here, is not to entertain those that are of an advanced Standing in this noble Philosophy, but to introduce those that wou'd be acquainted with it, and have as much Mathematicks as is necessary to qualifie them for it.
1790 Laws of Harvard Coll. 7 No person shall be admitted to an advanced standing, unless..he shall be found qualified.
1840 New Monthly Mag. May 141 The volume will be very acceptable not merely to all students of Italian literature and art, but to the most cultivated and accomplished of those who have taken advanced degrees in those charming studies.
1892 Brigham Young Acad. Circular 12 Requests for examination for advanced credit must be made to the faculty in writing.
1952 M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) vi. 113 We don't insist on the Ph.D. or even the Master's; in fact, we regard advanced degrees as a liability.
1963 Oxf. Univ. Gaz. 20 June 1484/2 Permitted to transfer from B.Litt. Status to Advanced Status.
1983 J. Deft Beaver Leader's Handbk. 10 The targets are the Scout Standard, the Advanced Scout Standard and the Chief Scout's award.
1998 Economist 21 Mar. 7 (advt.) An advanced degree, preferably a Ph.D in social sector..and a minimum of 5 years experience in development project cycle management or policy formulation..are required.
d. Philippine English. Of a clock or watch: indicating a time ahead of the correct time; = fast adj. 8a.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [adjective] > fast, slow, or accurate
fast1683
slow1683
timekeeping1747
advanced1997
1997 S. Butler in Eng. is Asian Lang.: Proc. Conf. Manila, 1996 104 My watch is advanced.
1998 M. E. P. Abanto et al. Experiencing Jesus' Presence in Christian Community (2006) iv. 172 If he begins his Mass on time, his watch is advanced; If he begins a minute or two later he keeps his people waiting.
2003 BusinessWorld (Philippines) (Nexis) 6 Nov. 5 Given the fact that our clocks are always advanced, is this good or bad?
6. Originally U.S. Given or provided in advance; prior; = advance adj.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adjective] > advance or given beforehand
advance1842
advanced1845
1845 Naut. Mag. & Naval Chron. No. 10. 554 (heading) Advanced notices.
1853 N.-Y. Daily Times 7 Dec. 4/3 From an advanced copy I make the following extracts.
1878 Bot. Gaz. 3 72 An advanced notice of this work appeared in the Gazette for June.
1920 W. S. Sims & B. J. Hendrick Victory at Sea xi. 324 Those all-important reconnaissance flights over the North Sea which were intended to give advanced warning of any activity of the German high seas fleet.
1997 D. Cressy Birth, Marriage, & Death xix. 452 The ingredients of a decent funeral among the later Stuart élite included advanced advertisement, preferably by printed ticket or invitation.
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advanced gas-cooled reactor n. Nuclear Physics a type of reactor used in Britain in which the coolant is carbon dioxide, the moderator is graphite, and the fuel is uranium oxide clad in steel; abbreviated AGR.
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the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > nuclear fission > nuclear reactor > [noun] > cooled by gas
advanced gas-cooled reactor1958
AGR1958
1958 New Scientist 11 Sept. 811/1 The next stage, the so-called advanced gas-cooled reactor, will use pencil-thick fuel elements with beryllium cans and uranium oxide fuel pressed into china-like cylinders.
1977 J. Francis in R. Underwood Future Scotl. iv. 61 The two new Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors (AGRs) will have a combined output of 1320 MW(e).
2007 R. L. Evans Fueling our Future viii. 128 This reactor type was superseded by the AGR (Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor) for a second generation of gas-cooled reactors in the UK.
advanced guard n. = advance guard n.; cf. avant-garde n. 2.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [noun] > for guard duty > advanced guard
forlorn hope1579
point1589
forlorn1645
advanced guard1677
advance party1686
advance guard1690
advance1780
1677 London Gaz. mccxliv. 4 Troops of the two Armies, who had the Advanced-guards.
1683 J. Bulteel tr. F. E. de Mézeray Gen. Chronol. Hist. France ii. 485 He quartered that day at the Village of Lonjumeau, his advanced Guard, at Montlehery.
1755 H. Sharpe Let. 30 Aug. in W. H. Browne Arch. Maryland (1888) VI. 276 They had an advanced Guard of 100 more French posted about a Mile beyond the Meadows.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 98 The advanced guard of the English army.
1898 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 5 Feb. 171/2 That is why Mr. Pinero, as a critic of the advanced guard in modern life, is unendurable to me.
1917 D. Haig Diary 3 May in War Diaries & Lett. 1914–18 (2005) 290 As the wearing-out process of the Enemy continues, a moment will come when our advanced guards and cavalry will be able to progress.
1959 Times 20 Feb. 11/6 Poplar became the advanced guard in London Labour.
2006 Sunday Times (Nexis) 18 June (Business section) 12 Britain, with London as its advanced guard, has opened itself to the globalisation of both capital and labour.
advanced level n. the higher of the two levels of the General Certificate of Education which may be taken in various subjects by secondary school pupils in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland; abbreviated A level n.; cf. ordinary level n. at ordinary adj. and adv. Compounds 2, and GCSE n. at G n. Initialisms.Commonly taken by candidates as a qualification for university entrance.
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society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] > school examinations > certificates
passing certificate1787
School Certificate1835
leaving certificate1871
School Cert1926
advanced level1947
matric1947
ordinary level1947
scholarship level1947
O level1949
S level1951
ordinary grade1959
Certificate of Secondary Education1961
O grade1962
GCSE1978
1944 Math. Gaz. 28 144 The syllabus worked out for physics-chemistry candidates..is at two levels, called ‘ordinary’ and ‘advanced’, corresponding to the ‘School Leaving Examination’ and the ‘Scholarship Examination’ of the Norwood Report.]
1947 Exam. Secondary Schools: Rep. (Secondary Schools Exam. Council) 8 An examination at ‘Ordinary’, ‘Advanced’ and ‘Scholarship’ levels should be available each year to candidates who are at least sixteen on Sept. 1st.
1981 D. Rowntree Dict. Educ. 103 The examinations are organised by nine separate examining boards and are at two levels: Ordinary level and Advanced level.
1995 Times Educ. Suppl. 10 Feb. 72/3 (advt.) The School was one of the top ten state selectives in Advanced Level results in 1994 and enjoys an enviable local reputation.
advanced passenger train n. now historical a prototype high-speed passenger train developed by British Rail, having a mechanism designed to tilt the coach bodies as the train rounds a bend; abbreviated APT n. at A n. Initialisms.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > passenger train > high-speed
bullet train1966
advanced passenger train1967
APT1967
Shinkansen1968
Metroliner1969
TGV1980
sprinter1984
1967 Times 12 Sept. 9/6 They unveiled designs for an advanced passenger train which..should be capable of speeds of 150-200 m.p.h. in comfort on existing track.
1982 Railway Mag. Jan. 53 We are desperately anxious to see the Advanced Passenger Train succeed.
1996 Independent 7 Sept. 5/1 Tilting trains were to have been introduced in Britain a decade ago but the prototype Advanced Passenger Train was consigned to York Railway Museum after a disastrous few weeks in service when it suffered continual breakdown.
advanced student n. a person who is studying at a higher level than the elementary; spec. (in some universities) a student who, because of qualifications obtained at a former place of study, is admitted to a more advanced course than normal.
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society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > advanced student
advanced student1775
1775 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad. 6 Imitation is as hurtful to the more advanced student, as it was advantageous to the beginner.
1832 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 38 394 An advanced student prepared for the practical duties of his profession.
1871 L. H. Bagg Four Years at Yale 689 Whether an ‘advanced student’ comes from a private tutor or from another college, or drops from a higher class at Yale, makes little difference.
1916 Oxf. Univ. Gaz. 22 Nov. 138/2 In a Congregation to be held on Tuesday, January 30, 1917..the form of Statute creating a new status of Advanced Student..will be promulgated.
1926 Bull. Amer. Libr. Assoc. Oct. 297 Seminars, cubicles, and private studies will be provided for..advanced students, and visiting scholars.
1994 R. Currie in B. Harrison Hist. Univ. Oxf. VIII. ii. v. 125 An Oxford graduate or holder of an approved degree from another university might, with the permission of a faculty board, supplicate for the degree of DPhil provided he had been admitted to the status of advanced student by a newly created Committee for Advanced Studies.
Advanced Subsidiary n. (in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland) the first half of an A level which is divided into two discrete components, also constituting an independent qualification (see note at A2 n.); usually attributive, esp. in Advanced Subsidiary level (abbreviated AS level).
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1996 Learning to Compete iv. 27 in Parl. Papers 1996–7 (Cm. 3486) Sir Ron Dearing's review made recommendations..to reduce wastage and promote breadth by introducing a new Advanced Subsidiary (AS) qualification, representing the first half of a full A-level.
1996 Daily Tel. 28 Mar. 4/7 They [sc. Advanced Supplementary qualifications] should become the first year of an A-level and renamed Advanced Subsidiaries.
2001 Guardian 20 Mar. d2/2 The new Advanced Subsidiary Level is a qualification in its own right.
2010 R. Matthews & J. Lally Thinking Teacher's Toolkit vi. 110 Interest in thinking skills..contributed to Critical Thinking becoming the fastest growing GCE Advanced Subsidiary examination subject in 2007.
Advanced Supplementary n. (in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland) a former General Certificate of Education qualification regarded as a complement to the A level; abbreviated AS; frequently attributive, esp. in Advanced Supplementary Level.The Advanced Subsidiary level was introduced in 2000 to replace the Advanced Supplementary level; cf. AS n. at A n. Initialisms.
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1984 Times 2 May 3/1 The advanced supplementary, or AS level, will require two years of study, cover at least half the ground of an A level, and be worth half an A level to employers and..admission tutors.
1999 Independent (Nexis) 18 Mar. 9 This stepping stone to A-level will be more useful than the existing Advanced Supplementary (AS), which has had a low take-up throughout its 15-year existence.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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