advanced Adjective part of overtake . 1 With reference to a work, with a considerable part already made: I have a pretty early book . Advanced. 2 Applied to payments, made before receiving the service or the thing to which it corresponds: Advance payment is required . Anticipated. 3 ( Estar; en, para ) More developed, physically or intellectually, of what corresponds to him by his age, by the time, etc .: This child is very advanced for his age. Wheat is very advanced . 4 Superior or excellent. 5 Sassy or insolent. 6 m It has been applied in seniority to various positions of authority. Military and political governor of a border province. Superior judge of the kingdom or of a district to which all other judges or merinos were subordinated. Carry forward (gralm with that or all that ). Frequent idiom with which it is expressed that a certain action or event is, in any case, an advantage already achieved for the person in question: If they leave us alone for now, we are all ahead of the curve . In advance. Referring to the way of paying something, making the advance payment.