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ADVANCER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does advancer mean? 

ADVANCER (noun)
  The noun ADVANCER has 1 sense:

1. someone who advancesplay

  Familiarity information: ADVANCER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ADVANCER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who advances

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

mover (someone who moves)

Derivation:

advance (move forward, also in the metaphorical sense)


 Context examples 


I had hitherto seen only one side of the academy, the other being appropriated to the advancers of speculative learning, of whom I shall say something, when I have mentioned one illustrious person more, who is called among them the universal artist.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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