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• Received-Pronunciation: /ədˈvɑːn.tɪd͡ʒ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [ədˈvɑːn.thɪd͡ʒ]
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• /ədˈvæn.tɪd͡ʒ/ without nt-flapping
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• [ədˈvæn.thɪd͡ʒ] without nt-flapping
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• /ədˈvæɾ̃.ɪd͡ʒ/ nt-flapping
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• [ədˈvæɾ̃.ɪd͡ʒ] nt-flapping
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• /ədˈveə̯n.tɪd͡ʒ/ without nt-flapping
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• /ədˈvɛə̯n.tɪd͡ʒ/ without nt-flapping
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• /ədˈveə̯ɾ̃.ɪd͡ʒ/ nt-flapping
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• /ədˈvɛə̯ɾ̃.ɪd͡ʒ/ nt-flapping
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• South-Asia: /əɖˈʋɑːn.ʈeːdʒ/
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• rhymes with -ɑːntɪdʒ
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• CMU ARPABET: AE0 D V AE1 N T IH0 JH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h2epó Proto-Italic *ap Latin ab Proto-Indo-European *h2ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h2énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h2énti Proto-Italic *anti Latin ante Late Latin ab ante Old French avant Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -age Old French avantagebor. Middle English avantage English advantage From Middle English avantage, avauntage, from Old French avantage, from avant (“before”), from Late Latin ab ante. The spelling with d originates in a latinizing hypercorrection, the a- being falsely supposed to be from Latin ad (see advance). For sense development, compare foredeal.

178 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: përfitim — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Arabic: أَفْضَلِيَّة (ʔafḍaliyya) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Arabic: فَائِدَة (fāʔida) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Armenian: առավելություն (aṙavelutʻyun) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Asturian: ventaya — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Asturian: ventaxa — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Basque: abantaila — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Belarusian: перава́га (pjeraváha) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Bengali: আসান (aśan) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Bengali: ফায়দা (phaẏoda) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Bulgarian: преди́мство (predímstvo) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Bulgarian: преиму́щество (preimúštestvo) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Catalan: avantatge — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Chinese Mandarin: 利益 (lìyì) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Chinese Mandarin: 優點 /优点 (yōudiǎn) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Chinese Mandarin: 好處 /好处 (hǎochu) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Czech: výhoda — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Danish: fordel — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Dutch: voordeel — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Faroese: fyrimunur — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Finnish: etu — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Finnish: hyöty — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• French: avantage — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Galician: vantaxe — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Georgian: უპირატესობა (uṗiraṭesoba) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• German: Vorteil — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Greek: πλεονέκτημα (pleonéktima) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Ancient Greek: ὄφελος (óphelos) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Ancient Greek: προτέρημα (protérēma) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Hebrew: יִתְרוֹן (yitrón) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Hebrew: מַעֲלָה (ma'lá) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Hindi: लाभ (lābh) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Hindi: हित (hit) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Hindi: फ़ायदा (fāydā) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Hungarian: előny — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Irish: buntáiste — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Italian: vantaggio — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Italian: beneficio — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Japanese: 得 (toku) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Japanese: 優位 (yūi) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Japanese: 有利 (yūri) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Japanese: 利点 (riten) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Khmer: ប្រយោជន៍ (prɑɑyaoc) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Khmer: អត្ថប្រយោជន៍ (ʼatthaʼprɑyaoc) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Korean: 이점 (ijeom) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Korean: 리점 (rijeom) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Korean: 유리 (yuri) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Krymchak: мефе (mefe) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Latin: quaestus — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Latin: utilitas — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Macedonian: предност (prednost) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Macedonian: предимство (predimstvo) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Malay: kelebihan — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Māori: huanga — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Māori: patanga — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Māori: pai — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Māori: painga — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Nahuatl: teinellili — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Nahuatl: tlayacanaliztli — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Norwegian Bokmål: fordel — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fordel — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Norwegian Nynorsk: føremon — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Persian: فایده (fâyede, fâyde) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Persian: برتری (bartari) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Persian: امتیاز (emtijâz) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Plautdietsch: Väadeel — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Polish: korzyść — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Polish: zaleta — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Portuguese: vantagem — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Portuguese: vantajoso — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Romanian: avantaj — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Russian: преиму́щество (preimúščestvo) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Russian: вы́года (výgoda) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Sanskrit: वीति (vīti) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Serbo-Croatian: пре̏дно̄ст — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Serbo-Croatian: преимућство — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Serbo-Croatian: prȅdnōst — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Serbo-Croatian: preimućstvo — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Slovak: výhoda — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Slovene: prednost — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Spanish: ventaja — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Spanish: ventaje — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Swedish: fördel — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Tagalog: kalamangan — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Tajik: фоида (foyida) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Tajik: бартарӣ (bartari) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Tajik: афзалият (afzaliyat) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Tajik: имтиёз (imtiyoz) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Turkish: avantaj — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Ottoman Turkish: افاده (ifade) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Ottoman Turkish: فائده (faʼide) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Ukrainian: кори́сть (korýstʹ) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Ukrainian: ви́года (výhoda) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Ukrainian: перева́га (pereváha) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Urdu: فائدہ (fāida) — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Vietnamese: lợi thế — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Welsh: mantais — any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
• Albanian: epërsi — superiority; mastery
• Belarusian: перава́га (pjeraváha) — superiority; mastery
• Bulgarian: преди́мство (predímstvo) — superiority; mastery
• Catalan: avantatge — superiority; mastery
• Chinese Mandarin: 優勢 /优势 (yōushì) — superiority; mastery
• Czech: výhoda — superiority; mastery
• Danish: fortrin — superiority; mastery
• Dutch: voordeel — superiority; mastery
• Dutch: overhand — superiority; mastery
• Finnish: yliote — superiority; mastery
• French: avantage — superiority; mastery
• Galician: vantaxe — superiority; mastery
• German: Vorteil — superiority; mastery
• Hebrew: יִתְרוֹן (itrón) — superiority; mastery
• Hungarian: fölény — superiority; mastery
• Japanese: 優越 (yūetsu) — superiority; mastery
• Krymchak: мефе (mefe) — superiority; mastery
• Macedonian: предност (prednost) — superiority; mastery
• Nahuatl: tlayacanaliztli — superiority; mastery
• Norwegian Bokmål: fordel — superiority; mastery
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fordel — superiority; mastery
• Polish: przewaga — superiority; mastery
• Polish: awantaż — superiority; mastery
• Portuguese: vantagem — superiority; mastery
• Russian: превосхо́дство (prevosxódstvo) — superiority; mastery
• Serbo-Croatian: пре̏дно̄ст — superiority; mastery
• Serbo-Croatian: prȅdnōst — superiority; mastery
• Spanish: ventaja — superiority; mastery
• Ukrainian: перева́га (pereváha) — superiority; mastery
• Albanian: epërsi — superiority of state, or that which gives it
• Catalan: benefici — superiority of state, or that which gives it
• Chinese Mandarin: 佔有優勢的 /占有优势的 (zhànyǒu yōushì de) — superiority of state, or that which gives it
• Danish: nytte — superiority of state, or that which gives it
• Dutch: voordeel — superiority of state, or that which gives it
• Finnish: etu — superiority of state, or that which gives it
• Finnish: hyöty — superiority of state, or that which gives it
• French: avantage — superiority of state, or that which gives it
• Galician: beneficio — superiority of state, or that which gives it
• German: Vorzug — superiority of state, or that which gives it
• Hebrew: יתרון (yitrón) — superiority of state, or that which gives it
• Japanese: 得 (toku) — superiority of state, or that which gives it
• Krymchak: мефе (mefe) — superiority of state, or that which gives it
• Latin: ēmolumentum — superiority of state, or that which gives it
• Nahuatl: tlayacanaliztli — superiority of state, or that which gives it
• Polish: korzyść — superiority of state, or that which gives it
• Portuguese: benefício — superiority of state, or that which gives it
• Romanian: avantaj — superiority of state, or that which gives it
• Spanish: provecho — superiority of state, or that which gives it
• Spanish: ventaja — superiority of state, or that which gives it
• Spanish: baza — superiority of state, or that which gives it
• Ottoman Turkish: فائده (faʼide) — superiority of state, or that which gives it
• Albanian: avantazh — the score where one player wins a point after deuce
• Catalan: avantatge — the score where one player wins a point after deuce
• Chinese Mandarin: 佔先 /占先 (zhànxiān) — the score where one player wins a point after deuce
• Czech: výhoda — the score where one player wins a point after deuce
• Danish: fordel — the score where one player wins a point after deuce
• Dutch: voordeel — the score where one player wins a point after deuce
• Finnish: etu — the score where one player wins a point after deuce
• French: avantage — the score where one player wins a point after deuce
• Galician: vantaxe — the score where one player wins a point after deuce
• German: Vorteil — the score where one player wins a point after deuce
• Hebrew: יתרון (yitrón) — the score where one player wins a point after deuce
• Norwegian Bokmål: fordel — the score where one player wins a point after deuce
• Polish: przewaga — the score where one player wins a point after deuce
• Portuguese: vantagem — the score where one player wins a point after deuce
• Romanian: avantaj — the score where one player wins a point after deuce
• Spanish: ventaja — the score where one player wins a point after deuce
• Swedish: fördel — the score where one player wins a point after deuce
• Turkish: avantaj — the score where one player wins a point after deuce
• Bulgarian: подпомагам (podpomagam) — to provide with an edge
• Bulgarian: благоприятствам (blagoprijatstvam) — to provide with an edge
• Dutch: begunstigen — to provide with an edge
• Dutch: bevoordelen — to provide with an edge
• Finnish: antaa etulyöntiasema — to provide with an edge
• French: avantager — to provide with an edge
• French: favoriser — to provide with an edge
• Galician: avantaxar — to provide with an edge
• Hebrew: העניק יתרון (heeník yitrón) — to provide with an edge
• Romanian: avantaja — to provide with an edge
• Ukrainian: віддавати перевагу (viddavaty perevahu) — to provide with an edge
• Ukrainian: надавати перевагу (nadavaty perevahu) — to provide with an edge