- 5. Increase (of price), enhancement, rise, appreciation.
Advance-guard, n. Vanguard, van.
Advancement, n.
- 1. Progress, progression, proficiency.
- 2. Promotion, preferment, elevation, furtherance, exaltation, aggrandizement.
- 3. Improvement, advance, growth. See advance.
Advantage, n.
- 1. Favorable opportunity, vantageground, superior situation or condition, best estate, best plight.
- 2. Superiority, ascendency, pre-eminence, upper-hand.
- 3. Benefit, avail, profit, gain, emolument, return, utility, expediency, good, weal, service, blessing.
- 4. Behalf, behoof, account, interest.
- 5. Privilege, prerogative, convenience, accommodation. See easement.
Advantage, v. a. Benefit, profit, serve, help, avail, advance the interest of, be of advantage to, be of service to.
Advantageous, a. Beneficial, profitable, helpful, useful, convenient, serviceable, salutary, favorable, expedient, good, well, gainful, opportune, for one’s advantage, for one’s interest, for one’s good.
Advent, n.
- 1. Arrival, coming, approach, visitation, appearing, accession.
- 2. Coming of Christ, the appearing of the Lord.
Adventitious, a. Accidental, incidental, extrinsic, extraneous, foreign, non-essential. See adscititious.
Adventure, n.
- 1. Chance, hazard, fortuity, contingency, risk, venture, stake, experiment, trial.
- 2. Hazardous enterprise, bold undertaking.