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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

... the wall, not only her eyes, but her whole face, radiating an uplifted peace. So angelic and majestic did she seem that Mathilde, looking up at her, would hardly have been surprised if she had floated out into space from her vantage-ground on the staircase. ...

— The Happiest Time of Their Lives • Alice Duer Miller

... obscure before, and, it may be, cast its rays far into the yet unexplored darkness beyond; or which, summing up into itself all the acquisitions in a particular direction of the past, shall furnish a mighty vantage- ground from which to advance to new conquests in those realms of mind or of nature, not as yet subdued to the intellect and ...

— On the Study of Words • Richard C Trench

... Chambeze— Glaring defiance with their fiery eyes— Two tawny lions—rival monarchs—meet And fright the forest with their horrid roar; But ere they close in bloody combat crouch And wait and watch for vantage in attack; So on their bannered hills the opposing hosts, Eager to grapple in the tug of death, Waited and watched for vantage in the fight. Noon came. The fire of pickets died away. All eyes were turned ...

— The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems • H. L. Gordon

... philosophers who thought that the moon was an inhabited world, and very early the romancers took up the theme. Lucian, the Voltaire of the second century of our era, mercilessly scourged the pretenders of the earth from an imaginary point of vantage on the moon, which enabled him to peer down into their secrets. Lucian's description of the appearance of the earth from the moon shows how clearly defined in his day had become the conception of our globe as only an ...

— Other Worlds - Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries • Garrett P. Serviss

... noticed that at the spot where the path, having serpentined down the little hillside, rejoined the main footway there was a bench so placed that its occupant would have a view along several avenues at once. Since it was obviously a vantage point for such strategy as his, he had taken the first steps down toward it when a little gray figure emerged from behind a group of blue Norway spruces. She went dejectedly to the bench, sitting down at an ...

— The Dust Flower • Basil King

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