ADVANTAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does advantage mean? 

• ADVANTAGE (noun)
  The noun ADVANTAGE has 3 senses:

1. the quality of having a superior or more favorable position

2. (tennis) first point scored after deuce

3. benefit resulting from some event or action

  Familiarity information: ADVANTAGE used as a noun is uncommon.

• ADVANTAGE (verb)
  The verb ADVANTAGE has 1 sense:

1. give an advantage to

  Familiarity information: ADVANTAGE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADVANTAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of having a superior or more favorable position

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

advantage; vantage

Context example:

the experience gave him the advantage over me

Hypernyms ("advantage" is a kind of...):

asset; plus (a useful or valuable quality)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "advantage"):

favor; favour (an advantage to the benefit of someone or something)

leverage (strategic advantage; power to act effectively)

handicap (advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning)

homecourt advantage (the advantage of playing on your home court in front of fans who are rooting for you)

lead (an advantage held by a competitor in a race)

clout; pull (special advantage or influence)

head start; start (the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race))

gain; profit (the advantageous quality of being beneficial)

preference (grant of favor or advantage to one over another (especially to a country or countries in matters of international trade, such as levying duties))

privilege (a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all)

expedience; expediency (the quality of being suited to the end in view)

favorable position; favourable position; superiority (the quality of being at a competitive advantage)

good (benefit)

advantageousness; favorableness; favourableness; positiveness; positivity; profitableness (the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome)

tax advantage (an advantage bestowed by legislation that reduces a tax on some preferred activity)

Antonym:

disadvantage (the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position)

Derivation:

advantage (give an advantage to)

advantageous (giving an advantage)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(tennis) first point scored after deuce

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("advantage" is a kind of...):

point (the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest)

Holonyms ("advantage" is a part of...):

lawn tennis; tennis (a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Benefit resulting from some event or action

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

advantage; reward

Context example:

reaping the rewards of generosity

Hypernyms ("advantage" is a kind of...):

benefit; welfare (something that aids or promotes well-being)

Derivation:

advantage (give an advantage to)

• ADVANTAGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they advantage    ... he / she / it advantages   
Past simple: advantaged   
Past participle: advantaged   
-ing form: advantaging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give an advantage to

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

This system advantages the rich

Hypernyms (to "advantage" is one way to...):

favor; favour; prefer (promote over another)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Antonym:

disadvantage (put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm)

Derivation:

advantage (benefit resulting from some event or action)

advantage (the quality of having a superior or more favorable position)

 Context examples 

In your case, dear Gemini, having more money will give you options to take advantage of you’ve not had before.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I don't think she can ever have been pretty; but, for aught I know, she may possess originality and strength of character to compensate for the want of personal advantages.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

An hour later, taking advantage of the cut-offs around which the sled had to go, Bill arrived.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Taking advantage of the propitious moment, Meg slipped away and ran down to greet her husband with a smiling face and the little blue bow in her hair which was his especial admiration.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He appeared, and confirmed the whole account: but with much more advantage to the captain, whose modesty had extenuated or concealed a great part of his merit.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

For us the victory brought much advantage.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Everything seemed to cooperate for her advantage.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He had comparatively no advantages at first.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

CARMENES is the first high-precision spectrometer in operation that is designed specifically to find planets using this ‘red dwarf advantage‘.

(Researchers find two new planets with masses similar to Earth’s near a small neighbouring star, University of Granada)