In the van or front. [1913 Webster]
In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers. [1913 Webster]
Far on in life or time. [1913 Webster]
"A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles." [1913 Webster]

Advanced guard, a detachment of troops which precedes the march of the main body.

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advanced

a bit previous, a la mode, advanced in life, advanced in years, adventurous, aged, along in years, ameliorated, ancient, avant-garde, beautified, bettered, broad, broad-minded, civilized, contemporary, converted, cultivated, cultured, daring, developed, educated, elderly, embellished, enhanced, enriched, exploratory, far ahead, far out, fashionable, forward, forward-looking, gray, gray with age, gray-haired, gray-headed, grown old, half-baked, half-cocked, hasty, hoar, hoary, ill-considered, improved, impulsive, in, inaugural, mod, modern, modernistic, modernized, modish, newfashioned, not firm, now, old, old as Methuselah, original, overhasty, oversoon, patriarchal, perfected, polished, preceding, precipitate, precocious, preliminary, premature, present-day, present-time, previous, progressive, radical, refined, reformed, rushed, senectuous, streamlined, tolerant, too early, too soon, transfigured, transformed, twentieth-century, ultra-ultra, ultramodern, uncrystallized, unjelled, unmatured, unmeditated, unpremeditated, unprepared, unripe, untimely, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, venerable, venturesome, way out, white, white with age, white-bearded, white-crowned, white-haired, wide, wrinkled, wrinkly, years old

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advanced

Progression

N progress, progression, progressiveness, advancing, advance, advancement, ongoing, flood, tide, headway, march, rise, improvement, advancing, progressive, profluent, advanced, forward, onward, forth, on, ahead, under way, en route for, on one's way, on the way, on the road, on the high road, on the road to, in progress, in mid progress, in transitu, vestigia nulla retrorsum, westward the course of empire takes its way.

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