different between advancement vs foredeal

English

Alternative forms

• advancemente (obsolete)
• advauncement (obsolete)
• advauncemente (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English avancement, Old French avancement. See advance.

Morphologically advance +? -ment

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æd?væns.m?nt/, /?d?væns.m?nt/

Noun

advancement (countable and uncountable, plural advancements)

1. The act of advancing, ; promotion to a higher place or dignity

   Synonyms: progression, improvement, furtherance
2. The state of being advanced
3. An advance of money or value; payment in advance.
4. (law) Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.

Translations

References

• advancement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French avancement, with the d added back to reflect the Latin.

Noun

advancement m (plural advancemens)

1. advance (forward movement)

Descendants

• French: avancement

English

Alternative forms

• fordele, fordeal, fordeale
• forthdeal (erroneous)
• fordell, fordel (Scotland)

Etymology

From earlier fordele, from Middle English foredel, foredele. Equivalent to fore- +? deal. Compare Saterland Frisian Foardeel (“advantage, gain, benefit, profit”), Dutch voordeel, Low German fortel, German Vorteil (“advantage”), Danish fordel, Swedish fördel. More at fore-, deal.

Noun

foredeal (plural foredeals)

1. An advantage; benefit; profit.
   • 1527, Brewer, Brodie, Gairdner, Letters and papers, foreign and domestic, of the reign of Henry VIII:

     [...] and at a great foredeal already; [and as for] such foredeal that they despair not of the...a deal, but that through the help of God, [our Grace and] other good ministers, these personages which [shall be now] sent shall undoubtedly conclude [...]

   • 1889, Sir thomas Mallory, La morte d'Arthure: The history of King Arthur and of the Knights

     And thus the battaile was great, and oftentimes that one partie was at a foredele and anon at an afterdele, which endured long.
2. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) The first place; lead; precedence; preference.
3. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) Progress; advancement.

Verb

foredeal (third-person singular simple present foredeals, present participle foredealing, simple past and past participle foredealed)

1. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) To store; lay past; keep in reserve; hoard.

Antonyms

• afterdeal (also afterdele)

Anagrams

• forelead, freeload, fœderal, loafered