a state, position, or opportunity affording superiority or advantage
2.
superiority or benefit accruing from such a position, state, etc
3. tennis short for advantage
Derived forms
vantageless (ˈvantageless)
adjective
Word origin
C13: from Old French avantageadvantage
vantage in American English
(ˈvæntɪdʒ)
noun
1.
a.
a position, situation, etc. more advantageous than that of an opponent
b.
a position that allows a clear and broad view, understanding, etc.
: also vantage point
2. Tennis Chiefly British
advantage (sense 4)
Word origin
ME < Anglo-Fr, aphetic for OFr avantage: see advantage
Examples of 'vantage' in a sentence
vantage
Whether this is good or bad or neither depends on your vantage point.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Its hilltop position would give loyalist troops a vantage point over rebel areas.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Looked at from the vantage ground of this tremendous war, all these other wars seem insignificant.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
It's certainly a different vantage point, certainly a lot closer.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
A few years back, over strenuous public protests, that vantage point was overtaken.
Smithsonian Mag (2017)
They bring out dish after dish and it's a good vantage point to gauge what you want to eat - all of it outstanding.
The Sun (2017)
My vantage point helps me remember what carefree innocence and lack of responsibility look like.
Christianity Today (2000)
It all depends on your vantage point.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
From this vantage point, contemporary sport no longer seems a distinctively modern phenomenon.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
From my vantage point in goal, the entire company were either charging towards you or hurtling away.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
But we in Britain can count ourselves lucky to be watching this drama from a safe vantage point outside the eurozone.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
From the same vantage point, the hotel's swimming pools are on full view.
The Sun (2007)
But this guy was sort of dead and alive at the same time, so he got to speak to us from this unique vantage point.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
If that seems like an exaggeration from the safer vantage point provided by the perspective of eighteen months, it certainly felt that way at the time.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
He climbed railings near the front of the building and, from a concealed vantage point, he saw a car arrive.