advantage
English
/ədˈvɑːn.tɪdʒ/, /ədˈvæn.tɪdʒ/
noun
Definitions
- (countable) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end.
- (obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.
- (countable) Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit
- (tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
- (soccer) 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).
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English avantage borrowed from Old French avantage derived from Latin abante (in front, before).
Origin
Latin
abante
Gloss
in front, before
Concept
Semantic Field
Time
Ontological Category
Other
Kanji
前
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- advantageable English
- advantageous English
- advantageousness English
- advantageth English
- nonadvantageous English
- overadvantage English
- unadvantageous English
- underadvantage English
- *abanteāre Latin
- *abantiare Latin
- *abantiāre Latin
- ab Latin
- ab ante Latin
- abante Latin
- in abante Latin
- avanti Italian
- avantage French
- avante Spanish, Castilian
- *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European
- avante Portuguese
- avantage Middle English
- avancer Old French
- avant Old French
- avantage Old French
- avantageus Old French
- abans Catalan, Valencian
- avant Catalan, Valencian
- anfantais Welsh
- mantais Welsh
- vondeish Manx
- avancoj Albanian
- avantageus Middle French
- abans Occitan
- aunz Romansh
- avant Romansh
- avaunt Romansh
- avon Romansh
- avànt Romansh