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vantage

[ van-tij, vahn- ]

noun

  1. a position, condition, or place affording some advantage or a commanding view.
  2. an advantage or superiority:

    the vantage of wisdom that often comes with age.



vantage

/ ˈvɑːntɪdʒ /

noun

  1. a state, position, or opportunity affording superiority or advantage
  2. superiority or benefit accruing from such a position, state, etc
  3. tennis short for advantage
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈvantageless, adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of vantage1

1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French, aphetic variant of avantage advantage
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Word History and Origins

Origin of vantage1

C13: from Old French avantage advantage
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Example Sentences

That death, or that death’s vantage point, is not what makes Susan Taubes’s novel so strange.

So I don’t have a lot of skin in the game on this issue from my personal vantage point but I have an interest in this as a matter of principle.

From our vantage point of 2020, it’s impossible to see how well we’ll cope with the multiple crises of climate change, coronavirus pandemic, and authoritarianism.

He also posted a YouTube video of it from their vantage point on Tuesday.

From Fortune

Ortiz then showed the next image, which was the same photo from the same vantage point, with the same fans wearing the same straw hats.

It is the myopic and solipsistic vantage point of the crotch.

When viewed from a particular vantage point, however, the work comes alive as various film scenes play.

The photo was also taken from a different vantage point to the one Stipp had been in.

Marriage equality is the right policy from numerous vantage points.

He also explains that from a higher mathematical vantage point, our dimension would seem less dimensional.

From a sense of justice, I hastened to remunerate those who had been deprived of their coign of vantage, but, alas!

He had leaped very smartly to this point of vantage, nevertheless he found Jumbo there before him, chattering worse than ever!

From our vantage point we watched them come abreast and pass us at a distance well within a mile.

The keep affords a vantage point for a magnificent view, extending in every direction.

"He's not as susceptible as he looks," Rose pronounced from her vantage-point of seniority.

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