vantage ground

American  

noun

1. a position or place that gives one an advantage, as for action, view, or defense.

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vantage ground British  

noun

1. a position or condition affording superiority or advantage over or as if over an opponent

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Etymology

Origin of vantage ground

First recorded in 1605–15

Example Sentences

From the vantage ground of these two lofty technicalities, Sir Eric Drummond, the Ambassador of Victoria's grandson, was entitled to gaze reproachfully upon Benito Mussolini last week and did in fact so gaze.�

From Time Magazine Archive

After all the struggle for so many years against many overwhelming oppositions, Magellan now rose into the vantage ground of success, and fulfilled the vision which had illumined his soul in his darkest hours.

From The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Butterworth, Hezekiah

A better vantage ground for a weary wayfarer need not be desired.

From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by Vincent, J. E. (James Edmund)

Goods were arriving and being put in place; men were quarreling for this or that vantage ground, and carpenters were busy in every direction.

From The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair by Otis, James

Thus divided, scattered, disputing among themselves, they gave the vantage ground to the enemy.

From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Cunningham, Francis A. (Francis Aloysius)

Related Words

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