vantage

noun

van·tage ˈvan-tij

Synonyms of vantage next

: a position giving a strategic advantage, commanding perspective, or comprehensive view

: superiority in a contest

: advantage sense 4

archaic : benefit, gain

Phrases

to the vantage

obsolete : in addition

Examples of vantage in a Sentence

the vantage had all been ours for the first half of the contest

Recent Examples on the Web Either vantage offers a real eagle’s eye view of autumn: the valley floor’s carpet of red and yellow maples and birches set against the red-roofed majesty of the Omni Mount Washington Resort, one of the last survivors of the age of White Mountain grand hotels. —

Patricia Harris and David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023 Maybe someone was filming it from a vantage Bea couldn’t see and this was part of a school project. —

Hazlitt, 30 Aug. 2023 The third floor will be a rental Airbnb that includes a patio with a southern vantage of seats in Progressive Field. —

Marc Bona, cleveland, 28 Aug. 2023 And because movies offer a visual immediacy and narrative immersion that books don’t, they are expected to be sweeping if not omniscient in their narrative scope, to reach for a comprehensive, even definitive vantage. —

Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023 The wheelhouse sits at the top of the yacht to provide the captain with the best vantage, while a sun lounge forward sports another pool in which guests can soak in the water (and the vistas). —

Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 May 2023 You may be surprised by how the view looks from a more objective vantage. —

Sevier Crespo, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2023 To do this, the X-AR measures an area utilizing the antenna at various vantages while a user transverses the room. —

Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 27 Feb. 2023 Writing about children and teen-agers from their vantage is full of hazards. —

Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023 See More

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