vantage point

3 definitions found

vantage point - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Vantage point \Vantage point\
     A point giving advantage; vantage ground.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Vantbrace

  Vantage \Van"tage\ (v[.a]n"t[asl]j; 48), n. [Aphetic form of OE.
     avantage, fr. F. avantage. See Advantage.]
     1. Superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain;
        profit; advantage. [R.]
        [1913 Webster]
  
              O happy vantage of a kneeling knee!   --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A position offering a superior view of a scene or
        situation; -- used literally and figuratively; as, from
        the vantage of hindsight; also called vantage point.
        [PJC]
  
     3. (Tennis) The first point scored after deuce; advantage[5].
        [Brit.]
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: When the server wins this point, it is called vantage
           in; when the receiver, or striker out, wins, it is
           called vantage out.
           [1913 Webster]
  
     To have at vantage, to have the advantage of; to be in a
        more favorable condition than. "He had them at vantage,
        being tired and harassed with a long march." --Bacon.
  
     Vantage ground, superiority of state or place; the place or
        condition which gives one an advantage over another. "The
        vantage ground of truth." --Bacon.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              It is these things that give him his actual
              standing, and it is from this vantage ground that he
              looks around him.                     --I. Taylor.
        [1913 Webster]

vantage point - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  vantage point
      n 1: a place from which something can be viewed; "from that
           vantage point he could survey the whole valley" [syn:
           vantage point, viewpoint]