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How to spell advance
What it means: To move forward or make progress.
In a sentence: The car started to advance slowly up the hill.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as advace or advence.
Same family: advances, advanced, advancing, advancement, advancer. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: “Advance” comes from Old French “avancer,” originally meaning “to move forward” or “to go before.” It is built from Latin parts that literally mean “to move before,” which is why we still use it for both physical movement and progress in life or technology.
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