vantage ground

noun

1. a position or place that gives one an advantage, as for action, view, or defense.

vantage ground

noun

1. a position or condition affording superiority or advantage over or as if over an opponent

Word History and Origins

Origin of vantage ground¹

First recorded in 1605–15

Example Sentences

Your pilot, knowing that a run from here is a certainty, selects his vantage ground.

From Project Gutenberg

Had it become a dominant faith, moreover, it would have bred a sacerdotal class as privileged as the Catholic priesthood, for the “veneration” offered to the consecrated ministers as the tabernacles of the Holy Ghost shows us what vantage ground they would have had when persecution had given place to power, and carnal human nature had asserted itself in the ambitious men who would have sought its high places.

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The successive failures, especially the last, gave the opposition great vantage ground in declaring against the scheme altogether.

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My niece," he began, "found herself obliged to go into a convent; and from this vantage ground she is pleading against her husband, with the aid of a barrister, who will be responsible for the costs.

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Forgetting in her haste the dreaded reptiles, she flew quickly to the rocks above, where, having gained a vantage ground of comparative safety, she paused to mark the unaccustomed pageant below.

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Related Words

• angle
• perspective
• point of view
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