vantage C2+ Topic:Space, Position & Direction US /ˈvæntɪdʒ/ UK /ˈvɑːntɪdʒ/ See IPA manual Meanings 1 noun a position or place affording a good view or advantage From his vantage on the ridge, he could see the entire valley below. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · a position or place... advantagepositionsuperiorityedgeperspectiveviewpoint ↔ Opposites disadvantagehandicap Word family Related forms advantageadvance Etymology AI details From Anglo-Norman vantage, an aphetic form of Old French avantage ('advantage'), from avant ('before'), from Latin abante ('from before'). avantage Middle English abante Latin View etymology graph -> Topics Space, Position & Direction External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # vantage **Type:** Word **Level:** C2+ **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈvæntɪdʒ/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈvɑːntɪdʒ/ ## Meanings 1. a position or place affording a good view or advantage ## Examples - From his vantage on the ridge, he could see the entire valley below. ## Synonyms - advantage - position - superiority - edge - perspective - viewpoint ## Antonyms - disadvantage - handicap ## Related Forms - advantage - advance ## Roots and Affixes - Root: avantage - Root: abante ## Etymology From Anglo-Norman vantage, an aphetic form of Old French avantage ('advantage'), from avant ('before'), from Latin abante ('from before'). ## AI Etymology Vantage comes from Anglo-Norman vantage, an aphetic form of Old French avantage ('advantage'), from avant ('before'), from Latin abante ('from before'). The historical chain includes Old French avantage and Latin abante. The quoted older senses, "advantage", "before", and "from before", supply the semantic anchors for vantage. The formation is best read as borrowed: the word vantage carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a noun, "a position or place affording a good view or advantage". Related English forms include advantage and advance. The result is a noun whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization. ## Topics - Space, Position & Direction markdown