How do you use the word "advanced" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "advanced": Your reading is very advanced. We advanced under cover of darkness.

Advanced Meaning

/ədˈvɑːnst/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbsimple past and past participle of advance

adjAt or close to the state of the art.

Sentence Examples

Your reading is very advanced.

We advanced under cover of darkness.

Scientists are working on highly advanced technology to replace fossil fuels.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

late later modern

Antonyms:

recede

CEFR Practice Quiz

The professor taught an ____ physics course that required knowing calculus.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

She is taking an ____ course in physics at the university.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Italic *ap Vulgar Latin ab Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Proto-Italic *anti Vulgar Latin ante Vulgar Latin ab ante Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Vulgar Latin -āre Vulgar Latin *abanteāre Old French avancierbor. Middle English avauncen English advance English -ed English advanced From advance + -ed.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"a gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles" — 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 3, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:

"The length of the stoppages could not well be reduced; indeed, they are already too short if we are to believe the tale now current of a wandering Jew sort of passenger—a lady of advanced years who can only alight from a train backwards. Every time she begins to get out a porter rushes up crying "Hurry up, ma'am; train's going!"—and pushes her in again!" — 1944 May and June, “When the Circle was Steam Operated”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:

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