ADVANCEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does advancement mean? 

• ADVANCEMENT (noun)
  The noun ADVANCEMENT has 3 senses:

1. encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something

2. the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)

3. gradual improvement or growth or development

  Familiarity information: ADVANCEMENT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADVANCEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

advancement; furtherance; promotion

Hypernyms ("advancement" is a kind of...):

encouragement (the expression of approval and support)

Derivation:

advance (give a promotion to or assign to a higher position)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of moving forward (as toward a goal)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

advance; advancement; forward motion; onward motion; procession; progress; progression

Hypernyms ("advancement" is a kind of...):

motion; move; movement (the act of changing location from one place to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "advancement"):

push (an effort to advance)

career; life history (the general progression of your working or professional life)

march (a steady advance)

clear sailing; easy going; plain sailing (easy unobstructed progress)

leapfrog (advancing as if in the child's game, by leaping over obstacles or competitors)

Derivation:

advance (develop further)

advance (move forward, also in the metaphorical sense)

advance (cause to move forward)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Gradual improvement or growth or development

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

advancement; progress

Context example:

great progress in the arts

Hypernyms ("advancement" is a kind of...):

development (act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "advancement"):

forwarding; furtherance; promotion (the advancement of some enterprise)

stride (significant progress (especially in the phrase 'make strides'))

work flow; workflow (progress (or rate of progress) in work being done)

Derivation:

advance (develop further)

 Context examples 

Mars and Jupiter will conjoin in your tenth house of prestigious career advancement, Capricorn.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Thousands of years ago, Plato wrote about the civilization, noting that its incredible technological advancements and wealth had no equal and that the city was ultimately destroyed by some terrible event.

(Researchers Claim to Have Found Mythical City of Atlantis in Spain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This integrative research used innovative technological advancements to bring studies of animal movement from closely controlled conditions in the laboratory into the field, where unsteady and intermittent flows are more the norm.

(Scientists discover how birds navigate crosswinds, National Science Foundation)

An important leadership function of all advanced practice nurses is participation in legislative and professional activities to promote professional advancement and health related social policies.

(Advanced practice nurse, NCI Thesaurus)

A professional association of dentists, committed to advancing the public's oral health, the ethical and scientific advancement of the field, and the professional advancement of its members.

(American Dental Association, NCI Thesaurus)

Then when evening comes we shall sally out upon them and see if we may not gain some honorable advancement from them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Surely you would not stand in the way of his advancement.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My lieutenant, for instance, is a man of wonderful courage and enterprise; he is madly desirous of glory, or rather, to word my phrase more characteristically, of advancement in his profession.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Their means were as different as their objects, and equally suited to the advancement of each.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Have you considered my daughter's station in life, the projects I may contemplate for her advancement, the testamentary intentions I may have with reference to her?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)