VANTAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vantage mean? 

• VANTAGE (noun)
  The noun VANTAGE has 2 senses:

1. place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective)

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

  Familiarity information: VANTAGE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VANTAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

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

place; position (the particular portion of space occupied by something)

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

vantage point; viewpoint (a place from which something can be viewed)

Sense 2

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 ("vantage" is a kind of...):

asset; plus (a useful or valuable quality)

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

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)

 Context examples 

“In that you have vantage,” said the crossbowman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Capturing the same clouds from two vantage points can help scientists calculate their altitude.

(Curiosity Mars Rover Finds a Clay Cache, NASA)

From different vantage points, they could gain a better understanding of the chain of cause and effect of the loss of these high-energy electrons.

(FIREBIRD II and NASA Mission Locate Whistling Space Electrons’ Origins, NASA)

From hidden points of vantage the family watched the performance.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Mercury and Venus transits are visible more often from Mars than from Earth, and Mars also offers a vantage point for seeing Earth transits.

(Mercury passes in front of the Sun, as seen from Mars, NASA)

From that vantage point, you will survey all you’ve achieved since Saturn first entered your tenth house of honors, awards, and achievement in December 2017 and be proud of your accomplishments.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This shows the expansion from the explosion is still continuing about 450 years later, as seen from Earth’s vantage point roughly 10,000 light years away.

(Chandra Movie Captures Expanding Debris from a Stellar Explosion, NASA)

Kepler detects a change in brightness when a planet passes in front of a star from the vantage point of the telescope.

(Light From An Ultra-Cool Neighbor, NASA)

When an object transits, or passes in front of a star from the vantage point of the space telescope, a dip in starlight is recorded.

(K2 Finds Dead Star Vaporizing a Mini 'Planet', NASA)

These radio emissions from Jupiter have been known about since the 1950s but had never been analyzed from such a close vantage point.

(Jupiter's North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System, NASA)