different between success vs advantage

English

Alternative forms

• successe (archaic)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin successus, from succ?d? (“succeed”), from sub- (“next to”) + c?d? (“go, move”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /s?k?s?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Noun

success (countable and uncountable, plural successes)

1. The achievement of one's aim or goal. [from 16th c.]

   His third attempt to pass the entrance exam was a success.

   Antonym: failure

2. (business) Financial profitability.

   Don't let success go to your head.

3. One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.

   Scholastically, he was a success.

   The new range of toys has been a resounding success.

4. The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.

   She is country music's most recent success.

5. (obsolete) Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result. [16th-18th c.]
   • 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:

     I suppose them as at the beginning of no meane endeavour, not a little alter'd and mov'd inwardly in their mindes: Some with doubt of what will be the successe, others with fear of what will be the censure; some with hope, others with confidence of what they have to speake.

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Further reading

• success in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• success in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Alternative forms

• advauntage (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English avantage, avauntage, from Old French avantage, from avant (“before”), from Medieval Latin abante. The spelling with d was a mistake, a- being supposed to be from Latin ad (see advance). For sense development, compare foredeal.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?v??n.t?d?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?væn.(t)?d?/

Noun

advantage (countable and uncountable, plural advantages)

1. (countable) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end.
2. (obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.
3. (countable, uncountable) Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit

4. (tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
5. (soccer) 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).

Synonyms

• foredeal, benefit, value, edge
• vantage

Antonyms

• disadvantage, drawback

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