Vantage
['vɑːntɪdʒ] or ['væntɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective).
Typist: Sharif--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.
(n.) The first point after deuce.
(v. t.) To profit; to aid.
Editor: Rodney
Definition
n. advantage: in lawn-tennis same as advantage: (Shak.) opportunity convenience excess addition.—v.i. (Spens.) to benefit profit.—ns. Van′tage-ground -point superiority of place opportunity &c.
Checker: Wilmer
Examples
- If she rose a trimmed, artificial mound, without inequality, what vantage would she offer the foot? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Now, Priest, said, the Knight, pulling off his gauntlet, if I had vantage on my head, I will have none on my hand--stand fast as a true man. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The four English people, being newcomers, sat in their coign of vantage to watch. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Ursula turned towards the bride and the people, and, from her place of vantage, gave an inarticulate cry. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The great shipping lines established wireless stations on their vessels, and the antenna were soon to be seen on points of vantage along every coast. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
Typed by Anton