vantage

1. 1.

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

   Broaderposition

   Narrowervantage point
2. 2.

   the quality of having a superior or more favorable position

   “the experience gave him the advantage over me”

   Synonymsadvantage

   Broaderasset

   Narrowerfavorleveragehandicaphomecourt advantageleadpullstartprofitpreferenceprivilege

Other forms of vantage

plural

vantages·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about vantage

What does vantage mean?

vantage means "place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vantage?

vantage has 2 syllables: van-tage. The stress falls on "van". In IPA it is /ˈvæntədʒ/.

What is another word for vantage?

Close synonyms include advantage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vantage a common word?

vantage is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.