advantage

Meanings

Noun

• Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end.
• Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.
• Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit
• The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
• The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.
• Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).

Verb

• to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to
• to do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of

Related

Similar words

• edge, vantage
• benefit, perk, upside, pro, foredeal
• ad
• favor, favorise
• benefit

Opposite words

• disadvantage, drawback

Origin

• From Middle English avantage, avauntage, from Old French avantage, from avant, from Medieval Latin abante. The spelling with d was a mistake, a- being supposed to be from Latin ad (see advance). For sense development, compare foredeal.