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[van-tij, vahn-]

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noun

a position, condition, or place affording some advantage or a commanding view.

an advantage or superiority: the vantage of wisdom that often comes with age.

British. advantage (def. 5).

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French, aphetic variant of avantage advantage

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Vantage sent him a letter saying that he and his family had to leave because the apartment was not his primary residence.

Scholars who puzzle over this city for a living can choose among an infinite number of vantage points.

However this area is not so well preserved, and they were unable to confirm it as a second vantage point.

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Vantage sent him a letter saying that he and his family had to leave because the apartment was not his primary residence.

Scholars who puzzle over this city for a living can choose among an infinite number of vantage points.

However this area is not so well preserved, and they were unable to confirm it as a second vantage point.

These are the kinds of questions to ask yourself while scouting for the right vantage point and composition before shooting.

His landscapes were really exceptional due to his use of searing colors and unusual vantage points.

Northwest clouds are viewed easily from the park's wide-open western vantage point.

The house's entire span is visible, if one wants it to be, from one end to the other at almost any vantage point.

Doesn't matter if it's true or not, from your vantage point.

From both global and familial vantage points, it is better to be a helpful uncle than a struggling father.

It tried every vantage point on the pole to get a view of its surroundings, and finally settled down to rest.

But this image suggests a view from the vantage point of the lunar surface looking at the horizon.

The elevation also gives the homeowner an enviable vantage point from the range.

One of the few vantage points where the concrete guideway is still obvious.

From that vantage point, part timers don't deserve pay parity.

From his vantage point there are arguments for and against an early handover.

It's from these vantage points on hills and in tall buildings that incredible footage was captured on video.

Thoroughly study the surface from these vantage points and decide where to establish a colony.

From this vantage point, the luxuriant tapestry appears as thick as ancient rain-forest canopy.

Five-degree field of view lends a wider peripheral vantage.

But from the vantage of a taxpayer, it is completely wrong.

From that vantage soldiers could have seen across the countryside for miles.

From our vantage point, a second galaxy happens to be behind the first galaxy.

Northwest clouds are viewed easily form the park's wide-open western vantage point.

Again, there are ubiquitous cameras, perched on every vantage point.

Even if my viewpoint doesn't move much, the scenery from the vantage is usually dramatically illuminated.

The true-color image shows how humans would see the planet from the vantage point of the spacecraft.

Already, their distance gives these probes a unique vantage point-a bird's-eye view of the solar system.

They orbit in the plane of the planet's rings, but from this vantage point appear to be below the planet.

You'll know you have a shot, and finding the best vantage point will verge on being an unconscious process.

Thus, from our vantage on the ground, clouds seem to float in the sky.

In lay terms, the future beyond the singularity is completely unpredictable from today's vantage point.

We had climbed over the guardrail to get a better vantage point.

Notice that the illusion works only from a specific vantage point.

Paglen used aerial photographs to locate the covert-terminal and determine the best vantage point for this pic.

It was fun to see this yellow ball flying to and from its nest from that vantage point.

From a distant vantage the set resembles a squat, wart-covered figure eight lying on its side.

We'll simply be adding fuel to their civil war, never a bad thing from our vantage point.

We would keep in touch by radio, steering them to the elephants from our bird's-eye vantage.

They are incredibly charismatic animals from my distant vantage point.

It is a spiral galaxy, but from our vantage point, it appears edge-on.

From a dis tant vantage the set resembles a squat, wart-covered figure eight lying on its side.

His vantage point gives him panoramic views of the.

Everest, thousands have tried to reach that lofty vantage point.

That's one more vantage point from which to view the evolving.

There are dozens of illuminating moments in these narratives told from the vantage point of participants and witnesses.

Somebody sees a problem differently, and suddenly everybody's vantage point changes.

From my vantage point, the problem for our students is intensified because,.

From that vantage point, it looks to me as if the revolution is sputtering.

First and foremost choose a vantage point where the camera can be still without moving for a given amount of time.

Swapping positions lets you escape an enemy's clutches or find a better vantage point from which to pump bullets into.

The next set of chutes appeared major even from our vantage circling above it.

The game automatically flips the screen on the horizontal axis, so your opponent can now see the board from his vantage point.

The overhead vantage point of the photo is a useful one.

While it's illegal to see or touch the sign up close, there are several vantage points that will give you a great photo.

Instead, from a vantage far beyond the moon, it will chase their shadows.

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vantage (ˈvɑːntɪdʒ)

—n
1.	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

[C13: from Old French avantageadvantage]

'vantageless

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

vantage

c.1300, "advantage, profit," from Anglo-Fr. vantage, from O.Fr. avantage (see advantage).

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