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English → English (gcide) Definition: Advantage ground Advantage \Ad*van"tage\ (?; 61, 48), n. [OE. avantage, avauntage, F. avantage, fr. avant before. See Advance, and cf. Vantage.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] Give me advantage of some brief discourse. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The advantages of a close alliance. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 2. Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over. [1913 Webster] Lest Satan should get an advantage of us. --2 Cor. ii. 11. [1913 Webster] 3. Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution. [1913 Webster] 4. Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen). [Obs.] [1913 Webster] And with advantage means to pay thy love. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Advantage ground, vantage ground. [R.] --Clarendon. To have the advantage of (any one), to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. “You have the advantage of me; I don't remember ever to have had the honor.” --Sheridan. To take advantage of, to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit. [1913 Webster] Syn: Advantage, Advantageous, Benefit, Beneficial. Usage: 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. [1913 Webster]