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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An advantage in a competition or conflict; superiority.
  2. n. A position, condition, or opportunity that is likely to provide superiority or an advantage.
  3. n. A vantage point.
  4. n. Sports An advantage.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Advantage; gain; profit.
  2. n. Advantage; the state in which one has better means of action or defense than another; vantage-ground.
  3. n. Opportunity; convenience.
  4. n. Surplus; excess; addition.
  5. n. In lawn-tennis, same as advantage
  6. To profit; aid.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An advantage.
  2. n. A place or position affording a good view; a vantage point.
  3. v. obsolete, transitive To profit; to aid.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. rare Superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.
  2. n. A position offering a superior view of a scene or situation; -- used literally and figuratively; ; also called vantage point.
  3. n. (Tennis), Brit. The first point scored after deuce; advantage{5}.
  4. v. obsolete To profit; to aid.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective)
  2. n. the quality of having a superior or more favorable position

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English vantage, by apheresis from advantage; see advantage. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, short for Old French avantage, advantage; see advantage. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • revengeance "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' :) Jan 12, 2012

  • bilby "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'. Aug 28, 2009

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