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.

3. British. advantage ( def 5 ).

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. See advantage
   tennis short for advantage

Derived Forms

• ˈvantageless, adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of vantage¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of vantage¹

C13: from Old French avantage advantage

Example Sentences

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

From Washington Post

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 ProPublica

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.

From MIT Technology Review

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.

From FiveThirtyEight

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

Marriage equality is the right policy from numerous vantage points.

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• advantage