About The Word Vantage
Learn about the word Vantage to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Vantage definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Vantage
| Vantage Definition And Meaning |
|---|
What's The Definition Of Vantage?
[n] the quality of having a superior or more favorable position; "he experience gave him the advantage over me"
[n] place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective) Synonyms | Synonyms for Vantage: advantage Related Terms | Find terms related to Vantage: See Also | advantageousness | asset | expedience | expediency | favor | favorable position | favorableness | favour | favourable position | favourableness | gain | good | handicap | head start | homecourt advantage | lead | leverage | place | plus | position | preference | privilege | profit | pull | start | superiority | tax advantage | vantage point | viewpoint Vantage In Webster's Dictionary \Van"tage\ (v[.a]n"t[asl]j; 48), n. [Aphetic form of OE.
avantage, fr. F. avantage. See {Advantage}.]
1. superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain;
profit; advantage. [R.]
O happy vantage of a kneeling knee! --Shak.
2. (Lawn Tennis) The first point after deuce.
Note: When the server wins this point, it is called vantage
in; when the receiver, or striker out, wins, it is
called vantage out.
{To have at vantage}, to have the advantage of; to be in a
more favorable condition than. ``He had them at vantage,
being tired and harassed with a long march.'' --Bacon.
{Vantage ground}, superiority of state or place; the place or
condition which gives one an advantage over another. ``The
vantage ground of truth. --Bacon.
It is these things that give him his actual
standing, and it is from this vantage ground that he
looks around him. --I. Taylor.
\Van"tage\, v. t. To profit; to aid. [Obs.] --Spenser. |
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Retrospective ‐ an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life…
- Bandtail ‐ wild pigeon of western North America; often mistaken for the…
- Douglass ‐ United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became…
- Stanza ‐ a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit…
- Calypter ‐ scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter…
- Lycia ‐ an ancient region on the coast of southwest…
- To one ear ‐ in a monaural manner; "the stimuli were presented…
- Rachet up ‐ move by degrees in one direction only, as of…
- Rudder ‐ (nautical) steering mechanism consisting of a hinged vertical…
- Oxidase ‐ any of the enzymes that catalyze biological…