Meaning of ADVANCED
| Pronunciation: | | ad'vanst
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- [adj] (of societies) highly developed especially in technology or industry; "advanced societies"; "an advanced country technologically"
- [adj] far along in time; "a man of advanced age"; "advanced in years"; "a ripe old age"; "the ripe age of 90"
- [adj] ahead in development; complex or intricate; "advanced technology"; "a sophisticated electronic control system"
- [adj] at a higher level in training or knowledge or skill; "an advanced degree"; "an advanced text in physics"; "special seminars for small groups of advanced students at the University"
- [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"
- [adj] ahead of the times; "the advanced teaching methods"; "had advanced views on the subject"; "a forward-looking corporation"; "is British industry innovative enough?"
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| | Synonyms: | | civilised, civilized, forward-looking, high, high-tech, hi-tech, innovative, late, modern, precocious, progressive, ripe, sophisticated |
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| | Definition: | | \Ad*vanced"\, a.
1. In the van or front.
2. In the front or before others, as regards progress or
ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers.
3. Far on in life or time.
A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard
experience written in his wrinkles. --Hawthorne.
{Advanced guard}, a detachment of troops which precedes the
march of the main body.
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| | Related Terms: | | a bit previous, a la mode, advanced in life, advanced in years, adventurous, aged, along in years, ameliorated, ancient, avant-garde, beautified, bettered, broad, broad-minded, civilized, contemporary, converted, cultivated, cultured, daring, developed, educated, elderly, embellished, enhanced, enriched, exploratory, far ahead, far out, fashionable, forward, forward-looking, gray, gray with age, gray-haired, gray-headed, grown old, half-baked, half-cocked, hasty, hoar, hoary, ill-considered, improved, impulsive, in, inaugural, mod, modern, modernistic, modernized, modish, newfashioned, not firm, now, old, old as Methuselah, original, overhasty, oversoon, patriarchal, perfected, polished, preceding, precipitate, precocious, preliminary, premature, present-day, present-time, previous, progressive, radical, refined, reformed, rushed, senectuous, streamlined, tolerant, too early, too soon, transfigured, transformed, twentieth-century, ultramodern, ultra-ultra, uncrystallized, unjelled, unmatured, unmeditated, unpremeditated, unprepared, unripe, untimely, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, venerable, venturesome, way out, white, white with age, white-bearded, white-crowned, white-haired, wide, wrinkled, wrinkly, years old |
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