01 n. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had th…
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Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over.“Lest Satan should get an advantage of us.” — 2 Cor. ii. 11.
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Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
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Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).[Obs.]“And with advantage means to pay thy love.” — Shak.
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The first point scored after deuce.(Tennis)
Phrases & compounds
Advantage ground —
vantage ground.
To have the advantage of —
to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge.
To take advantage of —
to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit.
Syn.
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.