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/ædvˈæntɪdʒ/ /ədvˈæntɪdʒ/ /ædvˈænɪdʒ/ /ədvˈænədʒ/ Listen

noun

Advantage n.

1.

Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. "Give me advantage of some brief discourse." "The advantages of a close alliance."

2.

Superiority; mastery; with of or over. "Lest Satan should get an advantage of us."

3.

Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.

4.

Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen). (Obs.) "And with advantage means to pay thy love."

5.

(Tennis) The first point scored after deuce.

Advantage ground, vantage ground. (R.)

To have the advantage of (any one), to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. "You have the advantage of me; I don't remember ever to have had the honor."

To take advantage of, to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit.

Synonyms: Advantage, Advantageous, Benefit, Beneficial. We speak of a thing as a benefit, or as beneficial, when it is simply productive of good; as, the benefits of early discipline; the beneficial effects of adversity. We speak of a thing as an advantage, or as advantageous, when it affords us the means of getting forward, and places us on a "vantage ground" for further effort. Hence, there is a difference between the benefits and the advantages of early education; between a beneficial and an advantageous investment of money.

verb

Advantage v. t. (past & past part. advantaged; pres. part. advantaging) To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit. "The truth is, the archbishop's own stiffness and averseness to comply with the court designs, advantaged his adversaries against him." "What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?"

To advantage one's self of, to avail one's self of. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Advantage'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Advantage" Quotes from Famous Books

... Street Aunt Tipping had taken advantage of his absence to enrich his room with a bargain in the shape of an old desk, which was the very thing he wanted. Dear old Aunt Tipping! And Gerard, it is to be feared, took a little more brandy than usual in honour of his young friend's adventures ...

— Young Lives • Richard Le Gallienne

... he bore a charmed life, and sometimes as he moved among his fellows he felt a certain sense of the unfairness of his advantage in this respect, and paused to pity those who could still be so eager, so tragically set upon, this little issue. The virulence of those enemies whom he was already making and who were to multiply as his ...

— The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.] • Richard Le Gallienne

... knew why—the men wanted to be aviators, motorists beating the record in speed on French trial trips, or Apaches in their relations with the female sex or prize-fighters—Jimmy Wilde had displaced Oscar, to the advantage of ...

— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston

... wisdom and goodness of God, that he at the day of judgment should so cast about the worst of our things, even those that naturally tend to sink us and damn us, for our great advantage. All things shall work together for good, indeed, to them that love God. Those sins that brought a curse upon the whole world, that spilt the heart-blood of our dearest Saviour, and that laid his tender soul under the flaming wrath of ...

— The Riches of Bunyan • Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

... centuries they clung to the persuasion that he had but retired to another mighty kingdom beyond the mountains, and in due time would return and sweep the haughty Castilian back into the ocean. In 1781, a mestizo, Jose Gabriel Condorcanqui, of the province of Tinta, took advantage of this strong delusion, and binding around his forehead the scarlet fillet of the Incas, proclaimed himself the long lost Inca Tupac Amaru, and a true child of the sun. Thousands of Indians flocked to his standard, and ...

— The Myths of the New World - A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America • Daniel G. Brinton

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