Definition of "vantage-ground" []

• Superiority of position or place; the place or condition which gives one an advantage over another; favorable position. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "When he looked back now from his vantage-ground, the old world he had known, the world of land and sea and ships, of sailor-men and harpy-women, seemed a very small world; and yet it blended in with this new world and expanded."
• "And yet it is a great vantage-ground towards friendship to have sprung from the same loins and to have been suckled at the same breasts, since even among beasts a certain natural craving, and sympathy springs up between creatures reared together. 159 Added to which, a man who has brothers commands more respect from the rest of the world than the man who has none, and who must fight his own battles. 160"
• "Then the Locrians ceased clinging to their rear, but continued their volleys from the vantage-ground above."