ADVANTAGE
\ɐdvˈantɪd͡ʒ], \ɐdvˈantɪdʒ], \ɐ_d_v_ˈa_n_t_ɪ_dʒ]\
Definitions of ADVANTAGE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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first point scored after deuce
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the quality of having a superior or more favorable position; "the experience gave him the advantage over me"
By Princeton University
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Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.
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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).
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To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.
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Superiority; mastery; - with of or over.
By Oddity Software
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Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.
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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).
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To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.
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Superiority; mastery; - with of or over.
By Noah Webster.
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Superior position; a benefit; anything that aids or assists; as, he had the advantage of a good education.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [French] Any state or means favourable to some desired end;—superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain ; profit.
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Superiority; superiority gained by stratagem; gain, profit; preponderation on one side of the companion.
By Thomas Sheridan
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