advantage

Etymology
From, , from , from , from. The spelling with d was a mistake, a- being supposed to be from 🇨🇬 (see advance). For sense development, compare.

Noun

 * 1)  Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end.
 * 2)  Superiority; mastery; &mdash; used with  to specify its nature or with  to specify the other party.
 * 3)  Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit
 * 4)  The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
 * 5)  The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.
 * 6) Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
 * 1)  Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit
 * 2)  The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
 * 3)  The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.
 * 4) Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
 * 1)  The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
 * 2)  The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.
 * 3) Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
 * 1) Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: أَفْضَلِيَّة, فَائِدَة
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: ventaya, ventaxa
 * Basque: abantaila
 * Belarusian: перава́га
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: fordel
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:, ,
 * Faroese: fyrimunur
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: უპირატესობა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὄφελος, προτέρημα
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:, फ़ायदा
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: buntáiste
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Khmer:, អត្ថប្រយោជន៍
 * Korean:, ,
 * Krymchak: мефе
 * Latin: quaestus
 * Macedonian: предност, предимство
 * Malay:
 * Maori: huanga, patanga,, painga
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Nahuatl: teinellili,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: fordel
 * Nynorsk: fordel, føremon
 * Ottoman Turkish: افاده, فائده
 * Persian:, ,
 * Plautdietsch: Väadeel
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пре̏дно̄ст, преимућство
 * Roman:, preimućstvo
 * Slovak: výhoda
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kalamangan
 * Tajik:, бартарӣ, афзалият, имтиёз
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, ви́года, перева́га
 * Urdu: فائدہ
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:


 * Albanian:
 * Belarusian: перава́га
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: fortrin
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:
 * Krymchak: мефе
 * Macedonian: предност
 * Nahuatl:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: fordel
 * Nynorsk: fordel
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пре̏дно̄ст
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: перева́га


 * Albanian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 佔有優勢的
 * Danish: nytte
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Japanese:
 * Krymchak: мефе
 * Latin: ēmolumentum
 * Nahuatl:
 * Ottoman Turkish: فائده
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish: ,


 * Albanian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: fordel
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Esperanto:
 * Ido:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Telugu:

Verb

 * 1)  to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to
 * 2)  to do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage
 * 1)  to do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage

Usage notes

 * Some authorities object to the use of advantage as a verb meaning "to provide with an advantage".

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: antaa etulyöntiasema
 * French: ,
 * Galician: avantaxar
 * Hebrew: העניק יתרון
 * Romanian:
 * Ukrainian: віддавати перевагу, надавати перевагу

Etymology
From, see above.