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say it: uhd-VAN-smuhnt
advancement is a noun meaning "encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something". It carries 3 recorded senses.
encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something
the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)
gradual improvement or growth or development
“advancement of knowledge”
“great progress in the arts”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for advancement come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.