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/vˈæntədʒ/ /vˈæntɪdʒ/ Listen

noun

Vantage n.

Superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage. (R.) "O happy vantage of a kneeling knee!"

A position offering a superior view of a scene or situation; used literally and figuratively; as, from the vantage of hindsight; also called vantage point.

(Tennis) The first point scored after deuce; advantage (5). (Brit.) 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."

Vantage ground, superiority of state or place; the place or condition which gives one an advantage over another. "The vantage ground of truth." "It is these things that give him his actual standing, and it is from this vantage ground that he looks around him."

verb

Vantage v. t. To profit; to aid. (Obs.)

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"Vantage" Quotes from Famous Books

... people loved big Mack and wished him well. So down the sloping sides of the encircling hills the crowds pressed thick, and on the platform the great men leaned over the rail, while they lifted their ladies to places of vantage ...

— Corporal Cameron • Ralph Connor

... not less closely attached to nature, although in a different manner. Taken existentially it is a part of sense; taken ideally it is the form or value which nature acquires when viewed from the vantage-ground of any interest. Individual objects are recognisable for a time not because the flux is materially arrested but because it somewhere circulates in a fashion which awakens an interest and brings different parts of the surrounding process into definable ...

— The Life of Reason • George Santayana

... cheer, till there remained with me naught;[FN15] whereupon I betook myself to the friends and fellow-topers upon whom I had wasted my wealth, so perhaps they might provide for my case; but, when I visited them and went round about to them all, I found no vantage in one of them, nor would any so much as break a bittock of bread in my face. So I wept for myself and repairing to my mother, complained to her of my case. Quoth she:—'Such are friends; an thou have aught, they frequent thee and devour thee, but, an thou have naught, they cast thee ...

— Supplemental Nights, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton

... curiously soon the external traces of the great snow-storm disappeared. For some weeks after the friendly nor-wester, the air of the whole neighbourhood was tainted by dead and decaying sheep and lambs; and the wire fences, stock-yard rails, and every "coign of vantage," had to be made useful but ghastly by a tapestry of sheep-skins. The only wonder was that a single sheep had survived a storm severe enough to kill wild pigs. Great boars, cased in hides an inch thick, had perished through sheer stress of weather; while ...

— Station Amusements • Lady Barker

... might be made of the words that occur only in the prose. Most of these words would be found to derive from the Saxon stock, which yields him almost all his store of invective and vituperation. The resources of his Latinised vocabulary enable him to rise by successive gyrations to a point of vantage above his prey, and then the downward rush that strikes the quarry is a Saxon monosyllable. In this cardinal point of art for those who have to do with the English speech he became the teacher of Burke, who, with a lesser wealth of Saxon at his command, ...

— Milton • Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh

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