'Vantage point' definitions:

Definition of 'vantage point'

noun

A place from which something can be viewed; "from that vantage point he could survey the whole valley" [syn: vantage point, viewpoint]

From: GCIDE

Vantage point \Vantage point\ A point giving advantage; vantage ground. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Vantbrace

From: GCIDE

Vantage \Van"tage\ (v[.a]n"t[asl]j; 48), n. [Aphetic form of OE. avantage, fr. F. avantage. See Advantage.]
1. Superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage. [R.] [1913 Webster]
O happy vantage of a kneeling knee! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
2. A position offering a superior view of a scene or situation; -- used literally and figuratively; as, from the vantage of hindsight; also called vantage point. [PJC]
3. (Tennis) The first point scored after deuce; advantage[5]. [Brit.] [1913 Webster]
Note: When the server wins this point, it is called vantage in; when the receiver, or striker out, wins, it is called vantage out. [1913 Webster]
To have at vantage, to have the advantage of; to be in a more favorable condition than. "He had them at vantage, being tired and harassed with a long march." --Bacon.
Vantage ground, superiority of state or place; the place or condition which gives one an advantage over another. "The vantage ground of truth." --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
It is these things that give him his actual standing, and it is from this vantage ground that he looks around him. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster]