NOAD:
vantage (usu.
vantage point) - a place or position affording a good view of something:
from my vantage point I could see into the front garden | [figurative] the past is continuously reinterpreted from the vantage point of the present.Chambers:
vantage - short for
advantage (n.) 4.
ETYMOLOGY: 13c in archaic sense
advantage, from French
avantage advantage.
advantage - ... 4 [tennis] the point scored after deuce¹.
OED:
vantage - 1. a. Advantage, benefit, profit, gain. Now
arch. ...
b. Pecuniary profit or gain.
Obs. ...
c. A perquisite.
Obs. ...
2. a. A greater amount of something.
b. An additional amount or sum. ...
3. a. Advantage or superiority in a contest; position or opportunity likely to give superiority; vantage-ground; a vantage-point. ...
1867 Trollope ... The bishop found that he would thus lose his expected vantage. 1908 L. M. Montgomery ... It was already quite dark, but not so dark that Mrs Rachel could not see them from her window vantage. ...Webster's 3rd:
¹vantage -
1 archaic : BENEFIT, GAIN
2 a: an advantage in a contest: SUPERIORITY
b: something (as strategic position or superior force) that gives an advantage to one of two contenders {attempts to secure vantage ground south of the river ...} {manipulation of the machinery of the convention from his vantage point as chairman ...}
c: a place esp. suited to give a comprehensive view or a commanding perspective: COIGN OF VANTAGE {looking back on her life from the vantage of her 80th birthday}
3: something thrown in for good measure: an additional sum or quantity: BOOT
4 [by shortening]
Brit. : ADVANTAGE 5
advantage - ...
5: the first point won in tennis after deuce;
also : the score for it called
advantage in if won by the server,
advantage out if won by the receiver
Dictionary: *vantagerelated discussion: advantage vs. vantage
