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Definition: VANTAGE GROUND |
VANTAGE GROUND1. Superiority of state or place; the place or condition which gives one an advantage over another. ``The vantage ground of truth. --Bacon. It is these things that give him his actual standing, and it is from this vantage ground that he looks around him. --I. Taylor. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Height | Mount, mountain; hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap; cape; headland, foreland; promontory; ridge, hog's back, dune; rising ground, vantage ground; down; moor, moorland; Alp; uplands, highlands; heights; (summit); knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump; knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole; steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough; escarpment, edge, ledge, brae; dizzy height. |
Influence | Footing; purchase; (support); play, leverage, vantage ground. |
Power | Ability; ableness; Adjective: competency; efficacy; efficiency, productivity, expertise (skill) ; validity, cogency; enablement; vantage ground; influence. |
Superiority | Noun: superiority, majority; greatness; advantage; pull; preponderance, preponderation; vantage ground, prevalence, partiality; personal superiority; nobility; (rank); Triton among the minnows, primus inter pares, nulli secundus, captain; crackajack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: VANTAGE GROUND |
| English words defined with "VANTAGE GROUND": Advantage ground. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "VANTAGE GROUND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pozicion strategjik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | удобна позиция за отбрана (vantage point), удобна позиция за нападение (vantage point). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | výhodné postavení. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | position stratégique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | günstige stellung, günstige ausgangsstellung. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πλεονεκτική θέση (advantageous position, coign of vantage, vantage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elõnyös helyzet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | antagevay oundgray território de vantagem. (various references) situaţie avantajoasã, poziţie avantajoasã (advantageous ground). (various references) удобная позиция (vantage point). (various references) povoljan položaj. (various references) fördelaktig position, överläge (advantage). (various references) avantajlı yer (vantage point). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-g-g-n-n-o-r-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: nongraduate. | |
-4 letters: grandaunt, orangutan, outranged. | |
-5 letters: aeronaut, androgen, argonaut, dragonet, graduate, guardant, negatron, nonrated, outraged, outrange, outraved, ragouted, runagate, trudgeon, unatoned, unornate, untagged, vanguard. | |
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