[ɐˈvans]
OriginBorrowed from French avance, from avancer (“to advance”).
- advance, imprest (amount of money, paid before it is due)
- handicap (an allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race, or other contest of skill, to the competitor possessing disadvantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the …
- lead (precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; as, a lead of a boat’s length, or of half a second; the state of being ahead in a race)
Formsава́нс(canonical, masculine) · aváns(romanization) · ава́нсов(adjective, relational) · ава́нс(indefinite, singular) · ава́нси(indefinite, plural) · ава́нсът(definite, singular, subjective) · ава́нсите(definite, plural, subjective) · ава́нса(definite, objective, singular) · ава́нсите(definite, objective, plural) · -(count-form, singular) · ава́нса(count-form, plural)