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   Vantage (vȧnˈtā́j; 48), n. [Aphetic form of OE. avantage, fr. F. avantage. See Advantage.]
   1. Superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage. [R.]
   
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   O happy vantage of a kneeling knee! Shak.
   
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   2. A position offering a superior view of a scene or situation; -- used literally and figuratively; as, “from the vantage of hindsight”;  also called vantage point.
   
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   3. (Tennis) The first point scored after deuce; advantage5. [Brit.]
   
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   ☞ When the server wins this point, it is called vantage in; when the receiver, or striker out, wins, it is called vantage out.
   
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   To have at vantage, to have the advantage of; to be in a more favorable condition than. “He had them at vantage, being tired and harassed with a long march.” Bacon. -- Vantage ground, superiority of state or place; the place or condition which gives one an advantage over another. “The vantage ground of truth.”  Bacon.
   
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   It is these things that give him his actual standing, and it is from this vantage ground that he looks around him. I. Taylor.
   
   
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   Vantage, v. t. To profit; to aid. [Obs.]  Spenser.
   
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