- placed ahead or forward: with one foot advanced.
- ahead or far or further along in progress, complexity, knowledge, skill, etc.: an advanced class in Spanish;to take a course in advanced mathematics;Our plans are too advanced to make the change now.
- pertaining to or embodying ideas, practices, attitudes, etc., taken as being more enlightened or liberal than the standardized, established, or traditional: advanced theories of child care;the more advanced members of the artistic community.
- far along in time: the advanced age of most senators.
- being ahead in development, knowledge, progress, etc
- having reached a comparatively late stage
- ahead of the times
