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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 (senseid en at or close to state of the art)At or close to the state of the art. 2 enhanced. 3 Having moved forward in time or space (e.g. advanced ignition timing). 4 In a late stage of development; greatly developed beyond an initial stage. 5 (context ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
AdvancED is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that accredits primary and secondary schools throughout the United States and internationally. AdvancED was formed in 2006 by the consolidation of the pre-college divisions of two of the U.S. regional ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Advanced \Ad*vanced"\, a. In the van or front. In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers. Far on in life or time. A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles. ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a beginners’/elementary/intermediate/advanced class (= teaching different levels of a subject ) ▪ An advanced class might be available. a developed/advanced nation (= one that has many industries ) ▪ In the developed ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. 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" comparatively late in a course of development; "the illness ...

Usage examples of advanced.

A certain positive terror grew on me as we advanced to this actual site of the elder world behind the legends--a terror, of course, abetted by the fact that my disturbing dreams and pseudo-memories still beset me with unabated force.

These fugitives, who fled before the Turkish arms, passed the Tanais and Borysthenes, and boldly advanced into the heart of Poland and Germany, violating the law of nations, and abusing the rights of victory.

I saw, sitting before a table, a woman already somewhat advanced in age, with two young girls and two boys, but I looked in vain for the actress, whom Don Sancio Pico at last presented to me in the shape of one of the two boys, who was remarkably handsome and might have been seventeen.

On returning from the review, Kutuzov took the Austrian general into his private room and, calling his adjutant, asked for some papers relating to the condition of the troops on their arrival, and the letters that had come from the Archduke Ferdinand, who was in command of the advanced army.

I had been advanced to the rank of tribune in the Second Legion Adjutrix, and passed some months of a rainy autumn on the banks of the Upper Danube with no other companion than a newly published volume of Plutarch.

Frank had dated her briefly in high school, but the romance never advanced past petting, and Peggy had married a real estate agent the same month Frank went into the academy.

That the tide of agrarianism was gradually flowing westward as the frontier advanced is apparent from the election returns in the States bordering on the upper Mississippi.

John Brodie, was one of the most enterprising agriculturists in the most advanced district of Great Britain.

Blyth, and Zack, till her vast country bonnet trembled aguishly on her head, the good woman advanced, shaking every moveable object in the room, straight to the tea-table, and enfolded Madonna in her capacious arms.

But the idea of simple scribal manipulation, which would mean that such desires never even existed, and which is advanced by modern authorities and bolstered by the similar examples from other cultures and by the predilection of scribes for amusing themselves with word and alphabet games, seems the best explanation.

There was puzzling evidence from all over the Altiplano that agricultural experiments of an advanced and scientific nature had been carried out, with great ingenuity and dedication, to try to compensate for the deterioration of the climate.

He advanced upon Ament, until their faces were only centimeters apart.

Pierre Divion fell almost at once, and our troops advanced on the southern heights of the Ancre to the Hansa trench half-way to Grandcourt.

Phyl had advanced into the more metaphysical aspects of Animist training, though still continuing to work with some of the species on the campus.

Our third division, advanced paleoliths and neoliths, refers to anomalously old stone tools that resemble the very finely chipped or smoothly polished stone industries of the standard Late Paleolithic and Neolithic periods.