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Definition: Advantage |
AdvantageNoun1. The quality of having a superior or more favorable position; "he experience gave him the advantage over me". 2. First point scored after deuce. 3. Benefit resulting from some event or action; "it turned out to my advantage"; "reaping the rewards of generosity". Verb1. Give an advantage to; "This system advantages the rich". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "advantage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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The NES Advantage was a large joystick sold for the Nintendo Entertainment System in the 1980s. The device was meant to rest on a flat surface at a comfortable level, such as a tabletop or the floor while seated in front of it. This way, it could be used much as an arcade joystick and buttons are used—with both hands, one for the joystick and the other to manipulate the buttons. With the gradual disappearance of mainstream arcades, this fact is often lost on younger players, who attempt to hold the Advantage while playing, making for an annoying experience.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "NES Advantage."
Synonyms: AdvantageSynonyms: reward (n), vantage (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: penalty (n), disadvantage (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Acquisition | Profit; make profit, draw profit, turn a quick profit; turn to profit, turn to account; make capital out of, make money by; obtain a return, reap the fruits of; reap an advantage, gain an advantage; turn a penny, turn an honest penny; make the pot boil, bring grist to the mill; make money, coin money, raise money; raise funds, raise the wind; fill one's pocket; (wealth). |
Expedience | Noun: expedience, expediency; desirableness, desirability; Adjective: fitness; (agreement); utility; propriety; opportunism; advantage. |
Good | Noun: good, benefit, advantage; improvement; greatest good, supreme good; interest, service, behoof, behalf; weal; main chance, summum bonum, common weal; "consummation devoutly to be wished"; gain, boot; profit, harvest. |
Adverb: well, aright, satisfactorily, favorably, not amis; all for the best; to one's advantage; Noun: in one's favor, in one's interest; n. | |
Improvement | Touch up, rub up, brush up, furbish up, bolster up, vamp up, brighten up, warm up; polish, cook, make the most of, set off to advantage; prune; repair; (restore); put in order; (arrange). |
Inequality | Verb: be unequal; Adjective: countervail; have the advantage, give the advantage; turn the scale; kick the beam; topple,topple over; overmatch; not come up to. |
Instrument | Mechanical powers; lever, leverage; mechanical advantage; crow, crowbar; handspike, gavelock, jemmy, jimmy, arm, limb, wing; oar, paddle; pulley; wheel and axle; wheelwork, clockwork; wheels within wheels; pinion, crank, winch; cam; pedal; capstan; (lift); wheel; (rotation); inclined plane; wedge; screw; spring, mainspring; can hook, glut, heald, heddle, jenny, parbuckle, sprag, water wheel. |
Ornament | In full dress; (fashion); dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, dressed to advantage; in Sunday best, en grand tenue, en grande toilette; in best bib and tucker, endimanche. |
Skill | Take advantage of, make the most of; profit by &e. (use); make a hit; (succeed); make a virtue of necessity; make hay while the sun shines; (occasion). |
Success | Triumph, be triumphant; gain a victory, obtain a victory, gain an advantage; chain victory to one's car; nail a coonskin to the wall. |
Advantage over; upper hand, whip hand; ascendancy, mastery; expugnation, conquest, victory, subdual; subjugation; (subjection). | |
Superiority | Verb: be superior; Adjective: exceed, excel, transcend; outdo, outbalance, outweigh, outrank, outrival, out-Herod; pass, surpass, get ahead of; over-top, override, overpass, overbalance, overweigh, overmatch; top, o'ertop, cap, beat, cut out; beat hollow; outstrip; eclipse, throw into the shade, take the shine out of, outshine, put one's nose out of joint; have the upper hand, have the whip hand of, have the advantage; turn the scale, kick the beam; play first fiddle; (importance); preponderate, predominate, prevail; precede, take precedence, come first; come to a head, culminate; beat; all others, bear the palm; break the record; take the cake. |
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. | |
Use | Ply, work, wield, handle, manipulate; play, play off; exert, exercise, practice, avail oneself of, profit by, resort to, have recourse to, recur to, take betake oneself to; take up with, take advantage of; lay one's hands on, try. |
Utility | Find one's account in, find one's advantage in; reap the benefit of; (be better for). render useful; (use). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Advantage |
| English words defined with "advantage": homecourt advantage ♦ take advantage, tax advantage, To have the advantage of. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "advantage": Absolute Advantage ♦ Comparative advantage ♦ granting an advantage. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "advantage": Vantage. (references) |
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Screenplays | Perhaps. The advantage is I don't have to think with them all the time (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) I wish the world was a place where fair was the bottom line, where the kind of idealism you showed at the hearing was rewarded, not taken advantage of. Unfortunately, we don't live in that world (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;) People are always taking advantage of me (A Fish Called Wanda; writing credit: John Cleese; Charles Crichton) The great advantage of having a reputation for being stupid: People are less suspicious of you. (Four Weddings and a Funeral; writing credit: Richard Curtis) The White House is the single greatest home court advantage in the modern world (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) | |
Lyrics | I'll take advantage while (About A Girl; performing artist: Nirvana) Take advantage (Sugar Walls; performing artist: Sheena Easton) | |
Clever | Poverty is a condition with but one advantage, it doesn't take much to improve your lot. (references; author: unknown) | |
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Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using the ... Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Observing party on Washington Monument Took advantage of scaffolding from 1934 cleaning of monument. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | |
![]() | Box core showing high density of manganese nodules Box cores have the advantage of showing character of undisturbed ocean bottom Off of OCEANOGRAPHER during DOMES project DOMES - Deep Ocean Mining Environmental Studies. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Double-crested cormorant - Phalacrocorax auritus. These birds often take advantage of the tops of pilings for resting places. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
![]() | Figure 57. Trawl line hooks. Top: Hooks with their leaders. Bottom: an individual hook. The hooks were spread out along the same line and used to good advantage for catching fish, similar to what is called long-lining today. Prince Albert I of Monaco used this method in his first scientific expeditions. This method was particularly used by Henry Bouree for his studies. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Detail view of tops of upstream arch barrels. Photograph by Jack E. Boucher, Summer 1971. (Reproduction Number: HAER, UTAH,18-SALCI,22-5) The development of the multiple-arch reinforced concrete dam by engineer John S. Eastwood took advantage of the inherent characteristics of an ancient building form to greatly reduce the needed mass of dams. Inclined, reinforced concrete barrel vaults transfer the weight of the impounded water to the ground through a series of buttresses. The downward pressure actually increases the stability of the dam by pressing it against its foundation, making it an ideal design for poor foundation conditions. Eastwood built similar dams throughout the world. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | "A shallow North Korean stream provides a natural washtub for the 1st Marine Division Leatherneck as he takes advantage of a lull in the fighting to clean off the dust and grime of battle. In the background, UN truck moves up with supplies for the front." Photograph and caption released by Commander Naval Forces Far East, under date of 2 July 1951. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Watercolor by James Alden, depicting the monitors USS Neosho and Osage running through a break in the Red River dam to pass safely over the rapids, 9 May 1864. This passage took advantage of an accidental break in the dam, which was being built by Army engineers to raise the river level enough to permit passage of all the vessels trapped above. Four gunboats passed through at this time: Lexington (which went first), Neosho (second), Fort Hindman and Osage. Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Dog: You certainly have an advantage : Goat: Why so? : Dog: Why, the summer showers don't take the curl out of your horns. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | The advantage is with the man who has the match! / Berryman. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "In School III." by Slivester Chua Commentary: "This shot was taken on the corridor of Blk F, 2nd level, right outside my classroom, 2S2. I took advantage of the quietness, and it was totally emptied, unlike its most active hours." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Alexander Pope | True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed. |
Author Unknown | God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us. |
Benjamin Franklin | The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money. |
Demosthenes | Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue. |
George Eliot | It's them as take advantage that get advantage I this world. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | Malice is pleasure derived from another's evil which brings no advantage to oneself. |
Publilius Syrus | We may with advantage at times forget what we know. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Every advantage has its tax. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | God, who hath given the world to men in common, hath also given them reason to make use of it to the best advantage of life, and convenience. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | It compels legislative recognition of particular interests of the workers, by taking advantage of the divisions among the bourgeoisie itself. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | All treaties, agreements, arrangements and contracts concluded by her with the Sherifian Empire are regarded as abrogated as from August 3, 1914 In no case can Germany take advantage of these instruments and she undertakes not to intervene in any way in negotiations relating to Morocco which may take place between France and the other Powers. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | This will have a double advantage. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The accidents of my life have often afforded me this advantage, but never with more fulness and variety than during my continuance in office |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Sister Simplice, who had watched with her, took advantage of this slumber to go and prepare a new potion of quinine |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It has the advantage of permitting comparison of populations. (references) | |
Avoiding the long wait is a major advantage of living donation. (references) | ||
The chief advantage of vasectomy--its permanence--is also its chief disadvantage. (references) | ||
Business | Repair services are also an advantage. (references) | |
This offers an advantage over U.S. BPM products. (references) | ||
Thus, the only perceived advantage is convenience. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Ukraine | This backing gives these newspapers an advantage over smaller, more independent newspapers. (references) |
Nepal | Ruling political parties have influenced the editorial policy of the government newspapers to their advantage. (references) | |
Mozambique | It claimed that publications close to the Government have an advantage in securing exemptions from customs duties. (references) | |
Economic History | Afghanistan | The Soviet Union moved quickly to take advantage of the April 1978 coup. (references) |
Japan | Again, the contract is awarded to the bidder with the best price advantage. (references) | |
France | France has taken advantage of these regulations in several specific instances. (references) | |
Human Rights | Niger | Widespread ignorance of the law and lack of financial means prevented the accused from taking full advantage of these rights. (references) |
Guatemala | The prisoners appeared to be taking advantage of the chaos of the activities planned to celebrate Prisoner's Day to make an escape. (references) | |
Thailand | Families rarely take advantage of a provision in the law that allows them to bring personal lawsuits against police officers for criminal action during arrest. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Bolivia | Indigenous groups have taken advantage of the Popular Participation Law to form municipalities that offer them greater opportunities for self-determination. (references) |
Mexico | In commercial transactions, bilingual middlemen take advantage frequently of non-Spanish speakers who also have difficulty finding employment in Spanish-speaking areas. (references) | |
Minorities | Bhutan | Local officials took advantage of the climate of repression to coerce ethnic Nepalese to sell their land below its fair value and to emigrate. (references) |
Political Economy | Costa Rica | The squatters seek to take advantage of relatively liberal laws permitting occupants to receive title to unused agrarian land. (references) |
REPUBLIC OF KOREA | In the early 1990s, wages rose faster than productivity and Korea lost its low-wage labor advantage to China and Southeast Asia. (references) | |
Czech Rep | Some European companies have sought to use the Czech Republic's interest in EU membership to gain advantage in commercial competition. (references) | |
Political Rights | Malaysia | The opposition also has stated that the short official campaign period gives an advantage to the incumbent ruling coalition. (references) |
Malaysia | Because of the changing dynamics of ethnic politics, ethnic gerrymandering of parliamentary constituencies, used against the opposition in the past, is believed to no longer be as great an advantage to the ruling coalition. (references) | |
Venezuela | However, as the date approached, it became apparent that the CNE had failed to organize the elections adequately, primarily due to constant changes to the voter database which both NGO's and political opponents of President Chavez alleged offered electoral advantage to Chavez's supporters. (references) | |
Trade | Luxembourg | In today's marketplace, quality is a competitive advantage. (references) |
Mexico | U.S. exporters should take advantage of L.C.s to provide financing. (references) | |
Vietnam | The introduction of U.S. EXIM and OPIC has somewhat offset this advantage. (references) | |
Travel | Philippines | Americans adopting to this cultural practice will have an advantage. (references) |
Colombia | They understand the give-and-take of business, and look to negotiate business arrangements which will be of mutual advantage to both parties. (references) | |
France | Product literature, correspondence and negotiations in the French language provide a distinct advantage over competitors who use only English. (references) | |
Women | Portugal | As in the case of domestic violence, socially ingrained attitudes discourage many women from taking advantage of the legal protection available. (references) |
Mali | Despite legislation giving women equal rights regarding property, traditional practice and ignorance of the law prevent women from taking full advantage of the law. (references) | |
Senegal | Urban women were more likely to take advantage of the Government's efforts to increase respect for women's legal rights to divorce, alimony, and child support, and to seek education and employment. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Turkey | Only 22.8 percent of working children take advantage of these schools. (references) |
Thailand | Underage boys reportedly are brought into Thailand for specialized work in which small size is an advantage. (references) | |
Nicaragua | In essence, employers have taken advantage of the extensive administrative requirements required to declare a strike legal and the CST's failure to follow the prescribed rules. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LL.D. Letters indicating the degree Legumptionorum Doctor, one learned in laws, gifted with legal gumption. Some suspicion is cast upon this derivation by the fact that the title was formerly LL.d., and conferred only upon gentlemen distinguished for their wealth. At the date of this writing Columbia University is considering the expediency of making another degree for clergymen, in place of the old D.D. -- Damnator Diaboli. The new honor will be known as Sanctorum Custus, and written $$c. The name of the Rev. John Satan has been suggested as a suitable recipient by a lover of consistency, who points out that Professor Harry Thurston Peck has long enjoyed the advantage of a degree. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bob Woodward | The military people think it will. Obviously, we have a great military advantage. We have an intelligence advantage, the CIA's been reinvigorated. They have their paramilitary teams which can operate the intelligence agencies are working better together. |
Dennis Miller | Men will lie, cheat, and take advantage of the most fragile emotional states in order to get laid, true. |
Rush Limbaugh | Yet while the Daschles and Robert Byrds of the world look for political advantage in the blood of our soldiers, the real world goes on. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Their importance will recall them to your attention, and I trust that the progress already made in the most arduous arrangements of the Government will afford you leisure to resume them to advantage. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | This foundation would have the advantage of being independent of war, which may suspend other improvements by requiring for its own purposes the resources destined for them. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | I am satisfied that under certain circumstances loans may be resorted to with great advantage. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | An active warfare has been kept up for years with alternate success, though generally to the advantage of the American patriots. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Louis to Santa Fe, under the protection of escorts furnished by the Government, is carried on to great advantage and is daily increasing. |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | We desire neither conquest nor advantage. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Too many in Government have had to sacrifice too much in economic advantage to serve the Nation. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Let us be proud that in each of the four wars in which we have been engaged in this century, including the one we are now bringing to an end, we have fought not for our selfish advantage, but to help others resist aggression. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | The potent new threat from an advancing Soviet Union, against the background of regional instability of which it can take advantage, requires that we reinforce our ability to defend our regional friends and to protect the flow of oil. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | But if we want to take full advantage of the opportunities before us in the global economy, we must do more. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Advantage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.97% of the time. "Advantage" is used about 7,332 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.97% | 7,330 | 1,319 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.03% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7,332 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Australia | Data Advantage Limited | New Zealand | Advantage Group Limited |
| USA | Advantage Marketing Systems, Inc. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "advantage": Advantage ground ♦ advantage in ♦ advantage of ♦ advantage over ♦ be of advantage ♦ comparative advantage ♦ derive advantage from smth ♦ find one's advantage in ♦ follow up an advantage ♦ gain advantage from ♦ gain an advantage ♦ gain an advantage over smb. ♦ granting an advantage ♦ have an advantage ♦ have an advantage over ♦ have the advantage of ♦ have the advantage of smb. ♦ homecourt advantage ♦ mechanical advantage ♦ pecuniary advantage ♦ profit advantage ♦ set off to advantage ♦ show to advantage ♦ suck advantage out of ♦ take advantage ♦ take advantage of ♦ take advantage of smb. ♦ take advantage of smth. ♦ take an advantage ♦ taking advantage of ♦ tax advantage ♦ to a person's advantage ♦ to advantage ♦ To advantage one's self of ♦ To have the advantage of ♦ To take advantage of ♦ to the advantage of ♦ to the advantage of smb. ♦ to the best advantage ♦ to turn to advantage ♦ turn to advantage. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
advantage car rental | 1,343 | advantage dog | 92 |
advantage | 1,223 | competitive advantage | 92 |
advantage rent a car | 849 | shopper advantage | 90 |
advantage flea | 375 | advantage travel | 89 |
gsa advantage | 371 | natural advantage | 89 |
traveler advantage | 308 | american airline advantage | 77 |
atkins advantage bar | 282 | advantage realty | 75 |
advantage bar | 278 | advantage mortgage | 71 |
advantage flea control | 263 | advantage stereo | 70 |
auto advantage | 139 | the global advantage | 69 |
verbal advantage | 133 | advantage sales and marketing | 68 |
student advantage | 124 | advantage home | 67 |
atkins advantage | 116 | advantage computer | 62 |
advantage cat | 112 | advantage of internet | 58 |
uniform advantage | 104 | 1st advantage federal credit union | 54 |
hair advantage | 102 | american advantage | 54 |
advantage rental | 100 | remax advantage | 52 |
advantage credit | 99 | advantage car | 51 |
advantage boat | 98 | advantage auto part | 50 |
advantage blue | 98 | advantage ford | 47 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "advantage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | voordeel (account, benefit). (various references) | |
Albanian | avantazh (edge, flying start, forehand, interest, lead, odds, one up, pas, self interest, vantage), përfitim (benefit, good, percentage, perk, perquisite, profit), leverdi (account, gain, interest, profit, utility), epërsi (ascendancy, ascendency, distinction, edge, excellence, excellency, pre eminence, predominance, preponderance, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, vantage, weight), dobi (avail, benefit, boot, expedience, expediency, gain, good, instrumentality, interest, use, utility, value). (various references) | |
Arabic | فضل (choose, excel, favor, favour, grace, graciousness, merit, outshine, prefer, priority, surpass), فائدة (avail, behoof, benefit, good, increase, interest, living, pay off, pay-book, profit, scoop, use, usefulness, usury, utility, welfare, worth), ميزة (attribute, character, characteristic, excellence, feature, merit, particularity, peculiarity, property, quality, speciality, trait), منفعة (use, usefulness, utility), مصلحة (benefit, department, interest, service, weal), حسن (alter, ameliorate, amend, beautiful, better, elaborate, extend, fine, handsome, improve, innovate, like better, make efficient, ok, okay, okey, perfect, polish, pretty, reclaim, reform, season, upgrade, well), تقدم (advance, advanced, advancement, antecedence, ascent, break through, career, careerist, come on, crowd, descend, development, evolution, forge ahead, forward, gain ground, gain one's destination, get along, get forward, get on, get up, go ahead, go up, going, head, headway, improvement, keep step, lead, make up on, march, move along, move in, onward, precede, priority, proceed, procession, progress, progression, promotion, propulsion, pull ahead, rise, seniority, shape, shoot ahead, speed, stem, step, superiority, take steps, upturn, way, work up to), أفضلية (bulge, odds, plus, preference, priority, pull, vantage). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | от полза съм (boot, bring the grist to the mill, profit), от изгода съм, облагодетелствувам (favour), благоприятствувам (advance, favour, serve), преимущество (interest, odds, perquisite, privilege, superiority, whip hand), предимство (antecedence, asset, leg up, pas, plus, precedence, preference, priority, privilege, pull, right of way, score, start, vantage), полза (account, avail, behoof, boot, expedience, expediency, favour, good, interest, profit, use, utility, value, velvet), подпомагам (aid, back, boost, facilitate, forward, further, get along, help, help on, help up, nurse, patronize, promote, prosper, relieve, set forward, subserve, succor, succour, support), изгода (account, convenience, gain, interest, lucre, plunder, profit, spoil). (various references) | |
Chinese | 裨益 (benefit, profit), 好處 (benefit), 好处 (Benefit), 利 (benefit, profit, sharp). (various references) | |
Czech | výhoda (amenity, benefit, boon, convenience, good, start, use, vantage), prospìch (avail, behoof, benefit, good, grades, interest, profit, welfare, well), přednost (asset, merit, precedence, preeminence, preference, priority, quality, reward, virtue). (various references) | |
Danish | fordel (account, benefit). (various references) | |
Dutch | voordeel (account, benefit, gain, profit), pré (benefit). (various references) | |
Esperanto | avantaĝo (benefit), utilo (benefit). (various references) | |
Faeroese | gagn (account, benefit), fyrimunur (benefit). (various references) | |
Farsi | فایده (Avail, Fruit, Profit, Use, Utter), مفیدبودن (Benefit, Stead), مزیت دادن , مزیت (Ascendency, Excellence, Preference, Prepayment, Privilege, Profit, Vantage), تفوق (Ascendency, Excellence, Influence, Predominance, Prevalence, Supremacy, Vantage), سودمندبودن (Avail), سود (Avail, Dividend, Fruit, Gain, Good, Grist, Increment, Interest, Lucre, Profit, Utter), صرفه (Gain), بهتری (Vantage), برتری (Excellence, Excellency, Influence, Majesty, Power, Predominance, Preference, Prepayment, Primacy, Priority, Profit, Prominence, Supremacy, Trancscendent, Upperhand, Vantage). (various references) | |
Finnish | yliote, hyvä puoli (good point), hyöty (benefit, profit, use), etuus (priority), edullisuus (profitableness). (various references) | |
French | avantage, intérêt. (various references) | |
Frisian | foardiel (benefit). (various references) | |
German | Vorteil (account, avail, benefit, gain, good, perk, profit, Van, vantage, virtue), Vorzug (asset, excellence, merit, precedence, preference, privilege, train before, train in front, virtue), Nutzen (account, avail, be of use, be useful, benefit, fruit, gain, good, make use of, profit, take advantage of, to deploy, use, usefulness, utility, utilize, value). (various references) | |
Greek | προτέρημα (aptitude, merit, recommendation, virtue), πλεονέκτημα (benefit, boon, vantage). (various references) | |
Hebrew | יתרון (gain, odds, plus, preponderance, profit, superiority). (various references) | |
Hungarian | előny (asset, benefit, boot, gain, good, preference, purchase, start). (various references) | |
Icelandic | kostur (benefit). (various references) | |
Indonesian | keuntungan (luck, net, vantage), kebaikan (benevolence, good, goodness, merit). (various references) | |
Italian | vantaggio (account, asset, avail, behoof, benefit, boon, convenience, forehand, gain, odds, perk, plus, profit, selling point, start, stead, usefulness, utility, vantage, virtue), profitto (account, benefit, gain, proceeds, profit, return, utility, yield), guadagno (accession, account, acquisition, benefit, earning, earnings, gain, increment, proceeds, profit, reward), beneficio (account, behoof, benefit, blessing, gain, good, kindness, profit). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 便宜 (accommodation, convenience, expedience). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ため (as a result of, because of, benefit, cesspool, good, in order to, manure sink, sake, sink, to, welfare), べんぎ (accommodation, convenience, expedience), りてん (point in favor), り (2.44 miles, an official, benefit, clever, diarrhea, diarrhoea, ill-mannered, interest, profit, reason, ri, rustic), アドバンテージ , やく (about, approximately, bad luck, being beneficial, benefit, disaster, evil, gain, misfortune, position, profit, role, service, some, to bake, to be envious of, to be jealous of, to grill, use), みょうり (fame and fortune, favor, luck, providence), ちょうしょ (merit, preliminary memo, protocol, strong point), えき (battle, being beneficial, benefit, campaign, divination, fluid, fortune-telling, gain, large, liquid, profit, station, use, war). (various references) | |
Korean | 이점. (various references) | |
Manx | vondeish (acquisition, benefit, expediency, gain, profit, usefulness). (various references) | |
Norwegian | fordel (benefit). (various references) | |
Papiamen | utilidat (account, benefit), bentaha (benefit), benefisio (benefit), benefishi (benefit). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | advantageay.(various references) | |
Polish | zaleta (benefit), korzyść (benefit). (various references) | |
Portuguese | vantagem (avail, behoof, benefit, better, bisque, boon, boot, catch, convenience, gain, good, interest, odds, profit, purchase, utility, vantage), benefício (avail, behoof, benefaction, benefit, boon, gain, good, preference, profit). (various references) | |
Romanian | avantaj (account, avail, benefit, boon, convenience, edge, gain, good, interest, odds, plus, point, profit, vantage), avantaja, ajuta (abet, accomodate, aid, answer, assist, avail, back up, befriend, benefit, carry, carry through, comfort, encourage, fillip, help, minister to, promote, prop, push, relieve, second, serve, succor, succour, support, sustain), fi în avantajul, beneficiu (benefit, gain, proceeds, profit, return), bine (allright, aright, blessing, boon, fine, fortune, gain, good, good looking, honorable, honourable, interest, okay, right, rightly, stately, that's settled, up to the mark, well, well then), binefacere (benevolence, boon, charity, dole, humanity), favoriza (abet, conduce, encourage, Favor, favour, forward, further, grace, increase, patronize, prosper, speed, support), profit (account, bargain, behoof, benefit, boot, convenience, Favor, favour, gain, good, grist, hand, interest, job, profit, return, use, velvet, yield), fi avantajos pentru, folos (account, avail, behoof, benefit, boot, catch, efficaciousness, emolument, gain, profit, service, stead, use, utility), interes (benefit, cause, concern, convenience, Favor, favour, interest, significance, stake), plus (addition, extra, plus), privilegiu (charter, Favor, favour, franchise, freedom, incident, indulgence, licence, patent, prerogative, priority, privilege, right), procopsealã (feat), câştig (bargain, benefit, boot, catch, draw, earnings, gain, godsend, hand, income, increment, lucre, penny, prize, proceeds, profit, return, revenue, share, use, velvet, windfall). (various references) | |
Russian | выгода (account, avail, benefit, catch, interest, profit, velvet), преимущество;выгода, преимущество (advantages, bargaining chip, bargaining counter, better hand, jump, odds, pas, perquisite, point, start, superiority, vantage, whip handle), польза (avail, behoof, benefit, favor, favour, good, profit, use, wholesomeness). (various references) | |
Scottish | tairbhe (profit, usefulness), stà, son (account, good, profit : air mo, sake), seirbhis (service, use), rath (luck, prosperity), leas (benefit, improvement, profit, the thigh; collectively : leasraidh). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | preimućstvo (antecedents, asset, jump, lead, precedence, preference, priority, vantage), prednost (antecedents, availability, lead, one up, precedence, preference). (various references) | |
Spanish | ventaja (account, avail, benefit, interest, odds, pull, start, vantage), provecho (account, avail, benefit, disadvantage, gain, interest, percentage, profit), beneficio (benefaction, benefice, benefit, blessing, bonus, dividend, gain, interest, leak, living, proceeds, profit, revenue). (various references) | |
Swedish | gagn (account, avail, benefit, use, usefulness), förmån (benefit, benefited, boon, convenience, emolument, Favor, favour, privilege), företräde (audience, pre eminence, precedence, preference, primacy, priority, right-of-way), fördel (account, asset, behoof, benefit, edge, gain, profit, pull, use, Van, virtue), övertag (ascendancy, edge). (various references) | |
Turkish | avantaj (advance, avail, benefit, head start, odds, start, vantage, whip hand). (various references) | |
Turkmen | nebis (gain, profit), bдhbit (gain, profit). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сприяти (abet, assist, befriend, bolster, conduce, cooperate, facilitate, farther, favour, further, help, help along, help forward, make for, promote, redound, subserve, support), користь (account, avail, benefit, convenience, emolument, gain, good, profit, use), віддавати перевагу (choose, like, prefer), вигода (accommodation, account, avail, behoof, boot, capital, emolument, profit, spoil), просувати (carry forward, farther, further, help along, help forward, impel, promote, push), перевага (allowance, ascendant, asset, benefit, boon, bulge, capital, convenience, easement, excellence, excellency, odds, overbalance, overweight, precedence, precedency, preference, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, privilege, pull, purchase, start, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, vantage), допомагати (abet, accommodate, assist, avail, beet, benefit, bestead, boot, boot out, cater, forward, lend a hand, oblige, promote, see through). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thình lình chộp được ai, sự thuận lợi (convenience, vantage), mối lợi thế lợi bất ngờ chộp được ai, hoàn cảnh thuận lợi. (various references) | |
Welsh | achlysur (cause, occasion, opportunity, reason), mantais (behoof), llesiant (benefit), llesa+d (benefit, profit), llesa/u (avail, benefit, boot), lles (advancement, avail, behoof, benefit, boot, good, profit). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | bona, bone, boni, bonis, bono, bonorum, bonum, commoda, commodum, emolumentum, fenore, fenus, oportunitas, opportunitas, salboni, usu, usui, usum, usus, utilitas, utilitate, utilitatem, utilitates, utilitati, utilitatibus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 3, Verse 1 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ti oun to perisson tou ioudaiou h tiV h wfeleia thV peritomhV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quid ergo amplius est Iudaeo aut quae utilitas circumcisionis |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Hwelce þonne fremu is to beonne Ebrea, oððe hwelc weorþ hæfþ besniþung? |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | What thanne is more to a Jew, or what profit of circumcisioun? |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | What preferment then hath the Iewe? other what a vauntageth circumcision? |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Romans Chapter 3, Verse 1 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Nan, unsa man diay ang bintaha sa pagka-Judio? Unsa may kapuslanan sa sirkunsisyon? |
| Croatian | Koja je dakle prednost Židova? Ili kakva korist od obrezanja? |
| Danish | Hvad er da Jødens Fortrin? eller hvad gavner Omskærelsen? |
| Dutch | Welk is dan het voordeel van den Jood? Of welk is de nuttigheid der besnijdenis? |
| Finnish | Mitä etuuksia on siis juutalaisilla, tai mitä hyötyä ympärileikkauksesta? |
| French | Quel est donc l`avantage des Juifs, ou quelle est l`utilité de la circoncision? |
| German | Was haben denn die Juden für Vorteil, oder was nützt die Beschneidung? |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Nan kondisyon sa a, lè yon moun jwif, ki avantaj ki gen nan sa? Kisa sikonsizyon an fè pou li? |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kalau begitu, apakah untungnya menjadi orang Yahudi? Dan apakah faedahnya menuruti peraturan sunat? |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Jikalau demikian, apakah kelebihan orang Yahudi? Atau apakah faedahnya sunat itu? |
| Italian | Qual è dunque la superiorità del Giudeo? O quale l'utilità della circoncisione? - |
| Korean | 그 런 즉 유 대 인 의 나 음 이 무 엇 이 며 할 례 의 유 익 이 무 엇 이 뇨 |
| Latvian | Kâda tad jûdiem priekðrocîba vai kâds labums no apgraizîðanas? |
| Maori | ¶ Ha, he aha ra te painga i hua ki te Hurai? he aha te rawa o te kotinga? |
| Norwegian | Hvad fortrin har da jøden? eller hvad gagn er det i omskjærelsen? |
| Portuguese | Que vantagem, pois, tem o judeu? ou qual a utilidade da circuncisão? |
| Rumanian | Care este deci kntkietatea Iudeului, sau care este folosul tqierii kmprejur? |
| Shuar | ¶ Núnis aisha Israer-shuar ainia nu ¿Warí pénkernak takakainia? Tura tsupirnaktincha ¿wariniak Yayá? |
| Swahili | Basi, Myahudi ana nini zaidi kuliko watu wengine? Au kutahiriwa kuna faida gani? |
| Swedish | Judarna hava väl det företrädet att de äga Guds löftesord, men de äro dock syndare inför honom, de såväl som hedningarna. Åt alla har Gud likväl berett rättfärdighet genom tro på Jesus Kristus. |
| Uma | ¶ To Yahudi pai' to bela to Yahudi hibalia-wadi, masala' omea-ramo hi poncilo Alata'ala. Aga neo' ta'uli' hewa toi, uma melabi kamarasi' -ra to Yahudi ngkai tau ntani' -na, pai' uma ria kalaua-na ada petini' -ra. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "advantage": advantaged, advantageous, advantageously, advantageousness, advantageousnesses, advantages. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "advantage": disadvantage. (additional references) | |
Words containing "advantage": disadvantaged, disadvantagedness, disadvantagednesses, disadvantageous, disadvantageously, disadvantageousness, disadvantageousnesses, disadvantages. (additional references) | |
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"Advantage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: advantabe, advan-tage, advantageth, advantagte, advantege, advantige, Adventide, Avantage. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "advantage" (pronounced adva"ntij, udva"ntij, adva"nij , or udva"nuj) |
| 7 | -d v a" n t i j | disadvantage. |
| 4 | -n t i j | frontage, percentage, vintage, Wantage. |
| 3 | -t i j | cabotage, footage, hostage, reportage, vestige. |
| 8 | u d v a" n t i j | disadvantage. |
| 4 | -n t i j | frontage, percentage, vintage, Wantage. |
| 3 | -t i j | cabotage, footage, hostage, reportage, vestige. |
| 4 | -a" n i j | micromanage, mismanage. |
| 3 | -n i j | carnage, coinage, linage, parsonage, patronage, signage. |
| 4 | -a" n u j | manage. |
| 3 | -n u j | concubinage, drainage, orphanage, tonnage. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-e-g-n-t-v" | |
-1 letter: vanadate. | |
-2 letters: vantage. | |
-3 letters: adnate, advent, agenda, agnate, tanged. | |
-4 letters: adage, agate, agave, agent, antae, anted, avant, daven, ganev, gated, vanda, vaned, vegan. | |
-5 letters: aged, anga, anta, ante, dang, data, date, dean, dent, deva, egad, etna, gaed, gaen, gane, gate, gave, gent, geta, gnat, nada, nave, neat, tang, tend, vane, vang, vena, vend, vent. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-d-e-g-n-t-v" | |
+1 letter: advantaged, advantages, galavanted. | |
+3 letters: advantageous, disadvantage. | |
+4 letters: disadvantaged, disadvantages. | |
+5 letters: advantageously. | |
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