Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An advantage in a competition or conflict; superiority.
- n. A position, condition, or opportunity that is likely to provide superiority or an advantage.
- n. A vantage point.
- n. Sports An advantage.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Advantage; gain; profit.
- n. Advantage; the state in which one has better means of action or defense than another; vantage-ground.
- n. Opportunity; convenience.
- n. Surplus; excess; addition.
- n. In lawn-tennis, same as advantage
- To profit; aid.
Wiktionary
- n. An advantage.
- n. A place or position affording a good view; a vantage point.
- v. obsolete, transitive To profit; to aid.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare Superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.
- n. A position offering a superior view of a scene or situation; -- used literally and figuratively; ; also called
vantage point . - n. (Tennis), Brit. The first point scored after deuce; advantage{5}.
- v. obsolete To profit; to aid.
WordNet 3.0
- n. place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective)
- n. the quality of having a superior or more favorable position
Etymologies
- From Middle English vantage, by apheresis from advantage; see advantage. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, short for Old French avantage, advantage; see advantage. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“Our vantage is that of an impassive bird, flying invisibly overhead, surveying the world with stately reserve.”
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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?”
“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.”
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“His vantage is an original combination of the archetypal and the impressionistic, the camera trailing after characters and hovering.”
“While some of his Democratic colleagues have expressed anger at this switch, my vantage is a little different.”
“Or, put another way, when a company with "vantage" in its name follows up”
“A glance at the net meaning of “country of origin” from the vantage point of international trade will supply us with a powerful tool for understanding Global English.”
“However, from the biggest picture vantage point, I believe of greatest impact for the decade were Franzia, and even more importantly Robert Parker.”
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“From that vantage point, he sees his son go the refrigerator to get milk.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vantage’.
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Brand Theft Auto
A marque list for cars--models or companies who've used common words as their name.
explorer, navigator, frontier, mustang, quest, cougar, sidekick, legend, legacy, ranger, voyager, civic and 266 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Tag! You're it.
tag, tags, tagging, Tagalog, baronetage, montage, tagalong, Rabindranath Tagore, uredostage, ragtag and bobtail, voltage, price tag and 96 more...
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Shakespeare.02
sprite, liege, benison, transpose, nonpareil, vantage, disburse, sheathe, harbinger, rapt, minion, purge and 3 more...
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Joshee Word List
gash, engross, entail, stoke, ode, vacillate, aspersion, asperity, clan, kith, prospect, nag and 229 more...
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amber words
amber words is the term I use for words that are all but fossilized, in the sense that their use is always in the context of a single expression. Examples include caboodle, dudgeon, umbrage
sanctum, akimbo, amok, riddance, druthers, trove, caboodle, immemorial, blithering, dudgeon, swaddling, askance and 110 more...
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MsHalston's Words
theoretically, insufferable, apolitico, milquetoast, egregious, aplomb, elan, fraught, flummox, befrocked, moll, molten and 605 more...
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danallison's Words
polysemy, self-reliance, savor, amenities, vintage, proverbial, colloquial, assemblage, ubiquitous, jocular, prosaic, perambulation and 443 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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nether's list
adroit, recrudescent, ecclesiastical, canaille, philologian, ignoble, dilettante, vicegerant, gilt, enfiladed, somnambulism, gamin and 215 more...
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Literarie: The Tragedy of Coriolanus
A play by William Shakespeare.
sufferance, cram, garner, embracement, freelier, mammock, cambric, stitchery, cloven, murrain, manifest housekeeper, a crack'd drachma! and 88 more...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
nuptial, pert, revelling, nosegay, sweetmeat, abjure, mewed, betwixt, vantage, avouch, extenuate, belike and 6 more...
Tweets
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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