advancer

American  

[ad-van-ser, -vahn-] / ædˈvæn sər, -ˈvɑn- /

noun

1. a person or thing that advances.

2. the second branch of the antlers of a buck.

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Etymology

Origin of advancer

First recorded in 1490–1500; see origin at advance, -er ¹

Example Sentences

Wall Street ended mostly in the red, with the Dow the only advancer.

From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026

Some scientists delight in the role of advancer or supporter of the new piece of knowledge that will change how we understand our world in some fundamental way.

From Scientific American • Aug. 30, 2013

Every eye turned toward the advancer of the bid,—a long man, with a wild red beard.

From The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Hackley, Sarah Bell

Buck had been given up as an advancer of paradoxes, and nobody but Carte had dared to controvert the popular belief.

From Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Walpole, Horace

In politics, as we know, he was a liberal conservative,--a conserver of what was best in the present and the past, and an advancer of all that tended to true and harmonious progress.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam by Lord, John