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advaunce

advaunce is the obsolete form of advance.

Meaning of advance

Adjective

advance (comparative more advance, superlative most advance)

  1. Completed before necessary or a milestone event.
    • He made an advance payment on the prior shipment to show good faith.
  2. Preceding.
    • The advance man came a month before the candidate.
  3. Forward.
    • The scouts found a site for an advance base.

See all 20 meanings of advance

Forms of advaunce

Adjective
comparativemore advaunce
superlativemost advaunce
Noun
pluraladvaunces
Verb
third-person singular presentadvaunces
present participleadvauncing
past participleadvaunced
pastadvaunced

Words formed from advaunce

Questions about advaunce

What is advaunce the obsolete form of?
Advaunce is the obsolete form of advance.

Words near advaunce in the dictionary

  1. advantageth
  2. advantaging
  3. advantagious
  4. advantame
  5. advaunc'd
  6. advaunce
  7. advaunced
  8. advauncement
  9. advauncemente
  10. advauncementes
  11. advauncements

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Adapted from Wiktionary: advaunce (page history and authors); advance (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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