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Thesaurus: advantage

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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  1. n. 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.
  2. n. Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over.
  3. n. Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
  4. n. Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
  5. v. t. To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.
  6. n. the quality of having a superior or more favorable position
  7. n. (tennis) first point scored after deuce
  8. n. benefit resulting from some event or action
  9. v. give an advantage to
  10. v:1/n:99 n. the quality of having a superior or more favorable position n. (tennis) first point scored after deuce n. benefit resulting from some event or action v. give an advantage to