advantage

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (1)  · 
“
Another major advantage is the very readable and attractive typography and layout, making the OLD very pleasant to use, even over a long sitting.

View all »
Definitions (33)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (9)

  1. noun A beneficial factor or combination of factors.
  2. noun Benefit or profit; gain: It is to your advantage to invest wisely.
  3. noun A relatively favorable position; superiority of means: A better education gave us the advantage.
6 more from this dictionary »

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (18)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (2)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (4)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples

  • Another major advantage is the very readable and attractive typography and layout, making the OLD very pleasant to use, even over a long sitting. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
  • Another (major) advantage is that the correspondence he received relating to a particular topic accompanies that article, providing better continuity. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 1
  • As he went down the corridor, a figure came hobbling up it, a bent, surly old man, stooping under the weight of his pike and a lantern he bore in one hand. —  The Bloody Crown of Conan
  • Tocasia suddenly remembered a prayer she had learned as a child back in temple school when temples were still fashionable in Argive. —  The Brothers' War
  • "Those bells arc from the Italian church on Twelfth, as you are well aware, brother darlinV —  The Lunatic Fringe
 

Tags

advantage hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

Advantage has been looked up 409 times, favorited 0 times, listed 10 times, and commented on once.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Suggestions Wordniks Suggest

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

benefit ·  importance ·  consequence ·  result ·  influence ·  success ·  consideration ·  aspect ·  lack ·  opportunity
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (3)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Middle English avantage, from Old French, from avant, before, from Latin abante, from before; see advance.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (2)

  1. from Middle English avantage, avauntage, from Old French (and F.) avantage, “an advantage, odds; overplus; addition; eeking; a benefit, furtherance, forwarding,” etc. (Cotgrave), = Provencal avantage (Middle Latin reflex avantagium), from Middle Latin *abantaticum, advantage, from abante, later Old French avant, etc., before: see advance, v.
  2. from late Middle English avantage, from Old French avantager, avantagier, later avantager, “to advantage, give advantage unto,” etc. (Cotgrave); from the noun.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ədˈvæntədʒ/
by American Heritage
by peggy tharpe

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a day.

Recent Lookups

statistician · travails · jaggies · peril · humble

Recent Favorites

supine · doxastic · bissextile day · airship · cloud-shadows

Recent Pronunciations

milosrdenstvi · lichen-covered · futon · sagacity · monoragngocious