Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An advantage in a competition or conflict; superiority.
- noun A position, condition, or opportunity that is likely to provide superiority or an advantage.
- noun A vantage point.
- noun Sports An advantage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To profit; aid.
- noun Advantage; gain; profit.
- noun Advantage; the state in which one has better means of action or defense than another; vantage-ground.
- noun Opportunity; convenience.
- noun Surplus; excess; addition.
- noun In lawn-tennis, same as
advantage
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.
- noun A position offering a superior view of a scene or situation; -- used literally and figuratively; ; also called
vantage point . - noun (Tennis), Brit. The first point scored after deuce; advantage{5}.
- noun to have the advantage of; to be in a more favorable condition than.
- noun superiority of state or place; the place or condition which gives one an advantage over another.
- transitive verb obsolete To profit; to aid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
advantage . - noun A place or position affording a good view; a
vantage point . - verb obsolete, transitive To
profit ; toaid .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective)
- noun the quality of having a superior or more favorable position
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Our vantage is that of an impassive bird, flying invisibly overhead, surveying the world with stately reserve.
Ballardian » Edward Burtynsky: Oil – A Ballardian Interpretation 2010
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From a certain vantage, “the brief takes positions that from a political and policy point of view are hard to square with, well, sanity,” but an empty political gesture with minimal actual impact upon the operations of big and small businesses are probably precisely what Congress was aiming at.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Solicitor General Lays an Egg 2010
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For all of Griet's talent for looking at the world from an artist's high-resolution vantage, is her eventual progression from housemaid to housewife really nothing but an inevitability, given both the cultural repression of her gender as well as her parents 'poverty?
Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier: Questions 1999
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Otherwise, knotholers, who named their vantage point after the knotholes in old wooden outfield fences through which fans could sneak peeks, enforce their own unwritten code of conduct.
Watching Baseball Through 'Knothole' Isn't Naughty When Giants Play Jim Carlton 2010
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His vantage is an original combination of the archetypal and the impressionistic, the camera trailing after characters and hovering.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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His vantage is an original combination of the archetypal and the impressionistic, the camera trailing after characters and hovering.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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While some of his Democratic colleagues have expressed anger at this switch, my vantage is a little different.
The Seattle Times 2008
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Or, put another way, when a company with "vantage" in its name follows up
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Or, put another way, when a company with "vantage" in its name follows up
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Or, put another way, when a company with "vantage" in its name follows up
bilby commented on the word vantage
"BRUTUS: Let them go on;
This mutiny were better put in hazard
Than stay, past doubt, for greater:
If, as his nature is, he fall in rage
With their refusal, both observe and answer
The vantage of his anger."
- William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'.
August 28, 2009
revengeance commented on the word vantage
"LYSANDER: I am, my lord, as well derived as he,
As well possessed. My love is more than his,
My fortunes every way as fairly ranked -
If not with vantage - as Demetrius'."
- William Shakespeare, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' :)
January 12, 2012