Advance (v.) Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office.
Advance (v.) An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.
Advance (v.) 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.
Advance (v.) 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.
Advance (a.) 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.
Advanced (a.) In the van or front.
Advanced (a.) In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers.
Advanced (a.) Far on in life or time.
Advancement (v. t.) The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning.
Advancement (v. t.) An advance of money or value; payment in advance. See Advance, 5.
Advancement (v. t.) Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.
Advancement (v. t.) Settlement on a wife, or jointure.
Advancer (n.) One who advances; a promoter.
Advancer (n.) A second branch of a buck's antler.
Advancive (a.) Tending to advance.
Advantage (n.) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.
Advantage (n.) Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over.
Advantage (n.) Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
Advantage (n.) Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
Advantaged (imp. & p. p.) of Advantage
Advantaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Advantage
Advantage (v. t.) To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.
Advantageable (a.) Advantageous.
Advantageous (a.) Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation.
Advantageously (adv.) Profitably; with advantage.
Advantageousness (n.) Profitableness.
Advene (v. i.) To accede, or come (to); to be added to something or become a part of it, though not essential.
Advenient (a.) Coming from outward causes; superadded.
Advent (n.) The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.
Advent (n.) The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
Advent (n.) Coming; any important arrival; approach.
Adventist (n.) One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists.
Adventitious (a.) Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
Adventitious (a.) Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.
Adventitious (a.) Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.
Adventitious (a.) Acquired, as diseases; accidental.
Adventive (a.) Accidental.
Adventive (a.) Adventitious.
Adventive (n.) A thing or person coming from without; an immigrant.
Adventual (a.) Relating to the season of advent.
Adventure (n.) That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
Adventure (n.) Risk; danger; peril.
Adventure (n.) The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
Adventure (n.) A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.
Adventure (n.) A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
Adventured (imp. & p. p.) of Adventure
Adventuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adventure
Adventure (n.) To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.
Adventure (n.) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
Adventure (v. i.) To try the chance; to take the risk.
Adventureful (a.) Given to adventure.
Adventurer (n.) One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.
Adventurer (n.) A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.
Adventuresome (a.) Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome.
Adventuress (n.) A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
Adventurous (n.) Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons.
Adventurous (n.) Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song.
Adventurously (adv.) In an adventurous manner; venturesomely; boldly; daringly.
Adventurousness (n.) The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.
Adverb (n.) A word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white.
Adverbial (a.) Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form.
Adverbiality (n.) The quality of being adverbial.
Adverbialize (v. t.) To give the force or form of an adverb to.
Adverbially (adv.) In the manner of an adverb.
Adversaria (n. pl.) A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes.
Adversarious (a.) Hostile.
Adversaries (pl. ) of Adversary
Adversary (n.) One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose or resist them; a member of an opposing or hostile party; an opponent; an antagonist; an enemy; a foe.
Adversary (a.) Opposed; opposite; adverse; antagonistic.
Adversary (a.) Having an opposing party; not unopposed; as, an adversary suit.
Adversative (a.) Expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis; as, an adversative conjunction (but, however, yet, etc. ); an adversative force.
Adversative (n.) An adversative word.
Adverse (a.) Acting against, or in a contrary direction; opposed; contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste.
Adverse (a.) Opposite.
Adverse (a.) In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse.
Adverse (v. t.) To oppose; to resist.
Adversely (adv.) In an adverse manner; inimically; unfortunately; contrariwise.
Adverseness (n.) The quality or state of being adverse; opposition.
Adversifoliate (a.) Alt. of Adversifolious
Adversifolious (a.) Having opposite leaves, as plants which have the leaves so arranged on the stem.
Adversion (n.) A turning towards; attention.
Adversities (pl. ) of Adversity
Adversity (n.) Opposition; contrariety.
Adverted (imp. & p. p.) of Advert
Adverting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Advert
Advert (v. i.) To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said.
Advertence () Alt. of Advertency
Advertency () The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness.
Advertent (a.) Attentive; heedful; regardful.
Advertised (imp. & p. p.) of Advertise
Advertising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Advertise
Advertise (v. t.) To give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; -- often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss.
Advertise (v. t.) To give public notice of; to announce publicly, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.
Advertisement (n.) The act of informing or notifying; notification.
Advertisement (n.) Admonition; advice; warning.
Advertisement (n.) A public notice, especially a paid notice in some public print; anything that advertises; as, a newspaper containing many advertisements.
Advertiser (n.) One who, or that which, advertises.
Advice (n.) An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel.
Advice (n.) Deliberate consideration; knowledge.
Advice (n.) Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; -- commonly in the plural.