avance

See also: Avance, avancé, and avancë

Danish

Etymology

From French avance (“advance”), from avancer (“to advance, go forward”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /avanɡsə/, [aˈvɑŋsə]

Noun

avance c (singular definite avancen, plural indefinite avancer)

1. profit

Inflection

Declension of avance

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	avance	avancen	avancer	avancerne
genitive	avances	avancens	avancers	avancernes

Related terms

• avancement (“advancement, promotion”)
• avancere (“to advance, be promoted”)
• avanceret (“advanced, sophisticated”)

Further reading

• avance on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Avance (økonomi) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French avance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aːˈvɑn.sə/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: avan‧ce

Noun

avance m or f (plural avances)

1. (chiefly plural) overture, approach, advance (act of accosting)

   Synonym: toenadering

2. (dated) progress

   Synonyms: voortgang, vooruitgang

3. (dated) stock appreciation
4. (obsolete) profit

   Synonym: winst

5. (dated) advantage, benefit

   Synonym: voordeel

Related terms

• avanceren

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.vɑ̃s/
• Homophones: avancent, avances

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

From the verb avancer.

Noun

avance f (plural avances)

1. early

   Antonym: retard

   Nous avons cinq minutes d’avance. ― We are five minutes early

   Nous sommes en avance. ― We are early

2. (in the plural) (romantic) advances

Derived terms

• à l’avance
• couru d’avance
• en avance
• faire des avances
• prendre de l’avance

 

Descendants

• → Danish: avance
• → Dutch: avance
• → Italian: avance
• → Norwegian Bokmål: avance
• → Romanian: avans
• → Russian: ава́нс (aváns)
• → Turkish: avans

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

avance

1. first-person singular present indicative of avancer

Further reading

• “avance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• encava

Galician

Verb

avance

1. inflection of avanzar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative
2. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of avançar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French avance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈvans/
• Rhymes: -ans

Noun

avance f (plural avances)

1. advance

   Synonyms: approccio, proposta, profferta

   fare un'avance ― to make an advance

Anagrams

• cavane, cenava

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French avance (“advance”), from the verb avancer (“to advance, go forward”), from Middle French advancer (“to advance”), from Old French avancer, avancier (“to advance; continue”), from Vulgar Latin *abanteāre, from Late Latin ab ante (“before, in front”), from both ab (“of, from, by”), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”) + and from ante (“before”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti, from *h₂énts (“forehead, front”), from *h₂ent- (“face, front”), from *h₂en- (“on, onto”) and *-s (derives nouns from roots). Doublet of avanse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈʋaŋs/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aŋs
• Hyphenation: a‧vance
• Homophones: A, a, avanse

Noun

avance m (definite singular avancen, indefinite plural avancer, definite plural avancene)

1. (horology) side in the clockwork to which the adjustment indicator must be set to make the clock go faster

   Synonyms: A, a

Antonyms

• retard (“the slower side of the clock”)

References

• “avance” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Anagrams

• cavaen

Portuguese

Verb

avance

1. inflection of avançar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /aˈbanθe/ [aˈβ̞ãn̟.θe]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /aˈbanse/ [aˈβ̞ãn.se]
• Rhymes: -anθe
• Rhymes: -anse
• Syllabification: a‧van‧ce

Etymology 1

Deverbal from avanzar.

Noun

avance m (plural avances)

1. advance
2. progress

   Synonym: progreso

3. advance payment

   Synonym: adelanto

4. preview, trailer

   Synonym: tráiler

Derived terms

• avance rápido (“fast forward”)

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

avance

1. inflection of avanzar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “avance”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10