Words that rhyme with advantage

• average 0
  adj 1: approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value; "the average income in New England is below that of the nation"; "of average height for his age"; "the mean annual rainfall" [syn: average, mean(a)] 2: lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street" [syn: average, ordinary] 3: lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best" [syn: average, fair, mediocre, middling] 4: around the middle of a scale of evaluation; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "medium bombers" [syn: average, intermediate, medium] 5: relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution; "the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30" [syn: modal(a), average] 6: relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values); "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000" [syn: median(a), average] n 1: a statistic describing the location of a distribution; "it set the norm for American homes" [syn: average, norm] 2: (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities 3: an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual; "he is about average in height"; "the snowfall this month is below average" v 1: amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain; "The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40" [syn: average, average out] 2: achieve or reach on average; "He averaged a C" 3: compute the average of [syn: average, average out]
• baronage 0
  n 1: the peers of a kingdom considered as a group [syn: peerage, baronage]
• beige 0
  adj 1: of a light greyish-brown color n 1: a very light brown [syn: beige, ecru]
• cabbage 0
  n 1: any of various types of cabbage [syn: cabbage, chou] 2: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum] 3: any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers [syn: cabbage, cultivated cabbage, Brassica oleracea] v 1: make off with belongings of others [syn: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift]
• carnage 0
  n 1: the savage and excessive killing of many people [syn: slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery]
• coinage 0
  n 1: coins collectively [syn: coinage, mintage, specie, metal money] 2: a newly invented word or phrase [syn: neologism, neology, coinage] 3: the act of inventing a word or phrase [syn: neologism, neology, coinage]
• commonage 0
  n 1: property held in common
• cortege 0
  n 1: a funeral procession 2: the group following and attending to some important person [syn: cortege, retinue, suite, entourage]
• damage 0
  n 1: the occurrence of a change for the worse [syn: damage, harm, impairment] 2: loss of military equipment [syn: damage, equipment casualty] 3: the act of damaging something or someone [syn: damage, harm, hurt, scathe] 4: the amount of money needed to purchase something; "the price of gasoline"; "he got his new car on excellent terms"; "how much is the damage?" [syn: price, terms, damage] 5: any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right [syn: wrong, legal injury, damage] v 1: inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree" 2: suffer or be susceptible to damage; "These fine china cups damage easily"
• disadvantage 0
  n 1: the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position [ant: advantage, vantage] v 1: put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm; "This rule clearly disadvantages me" [syn: disadvantage, disfavor, disfavour] [ant: advantage]
• dotage 0
  n 1: mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations [syn: dotage, second childhood, senility]
• drainage 0
  n 1: emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it [syn: drain, drainage]
• driftage 0
  n 1: the deviation (by a vessel or aircraft) from its intended course due to drifting
• empennage 0
  n 1: the rear part of an aircraft [syn: tail, tail assembly, empennage]
• footage 0
  n 1: film that has been shot; "they had stock footage of lightning, tornados, and hurricanes"; "he edited the news footage" 2: a rate of charging by the linear foot of work done
• frontage 0
  n 1: the extent of land abutting on a street or water 2: the direction in which something (such as a building) faces 3: the face or front of a building [syn: facade, frontage, frontal]
• frottage 0
  n 1: masturbation by rubbing against another person (as in a crowd)
• fruitage 0
  n 1: the yield of fruit; "a tree highly recommended for its fruitage"
• garbage 0
  n 1: food that is discarded (as from a kitchen) [syn: garbage, refuse, food waste, scraps] 2: a worthless message [syn: drivel, garbage] 3: a receptacle where waste can be discarded; "she tossed the moldy bread into the garbage"
• heritage 0
  n 1: practices that are handed down from the past by tradition; "a heritage of freedom" 2: any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors; "my only inheritance was my mother's blessing"; "the world's heritage of knowledge" [syn: inheritance, heritage] 3: that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner [syn: inheritance, heritage] 4: hereditary succession to a title or an office or property [syn: inheritance, heritage]
• hostage 0
  n 1: a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms [syn: hostage, surety]
• language 0
  n 1: a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; "he taught foreign languages"; "the language introduced is standard throughout the text"; "the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written" [syn: language, linguistic communication] 2: (language) communication by word of mouth; "his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets" [syn: speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, language, voice communication, oral communication] 3: the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; "his compositions always started with the lyrics"; "he wrote both words and music"; "the song uses colloquial language" [syn: lyric, words, language] 4: the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication; "he didn't have the language to express his feelings" [syn: linguistic process, language] 5: the mental faculty or power of vocal communication; "language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals" [syn: language, speech] 6: a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline; "legal terminology"; "biological nomenclature"; "the language of sociology" [syn: terminology, nomenclature, language]
• manage 0
  v 1: be successful; achieve a goal; "She succeeded in persuading us all"; "I managed to carry the box upstairs"; "She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it"; "The pianist negociated the difficult runs" [syn: pull off, negociate, bring off, carry off, manage] [ant: fail] 2: be in charge of, act on, or dispose of; "I can deal with this crew of workers"; "This blender can't handle nuts"; "She managed her parents' affairs after they got too old" [syn: manage, deal, care, handle] 3: come to terms with; "We got by on just a gallon of gas"; "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day" [syn: cope, get by, make out, make do, contend, grapple, deal, manage] 4: watch and direct; "Who is overseeing this project?" [syn: oversee, supervise, superintend, manage] 5: achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods [syn: wangle, finagle, manage] 6: carry on or function; "We could do with a little more help around here" [syn: do, manage] 7: handle effectively; "The burglar wielded an axe"; "The young violinist didn't manage her bow very well" [syn: wield, handle, manage]
• mintage 0
  n 1: coins collectively [syn: coinage, mintage, specie, metal money] 2: fee paid to a mint by the government for minting a coin 3: act or process of minting coins
• mismanage 0
  v 1: manage badly or incompetently; "The funds were mismanaged" [syn: mismanage, mishandle, misconduct]
• parentage 0
  n 1: the state of being a parent; "to everyone's surprise, parenthood reformed the man" [syn: parenthood, parentage] 2: the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents [syn: parentage, birth] 3: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" [syn: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock]
• peonage 0
  n 1: the condition of a peon 2: the practice of making a debtor work for his creditor until the debt is discharged
• percentage 0
  n 1: a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred) [syn: percentage, percent, per centum, pct] 2: assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group; "he wanted his share in cash" [syn: share, portion, part, percentage]
• personage 0
  n 1: another word for person; a person not meriting identification; "a strange personage appeared at the door" 2: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events [syn: important person, influential person, personage]
• pilotage 0
  n 1: the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place [syn: navigation, pilotage, piloting] 2: the occupation of a pilot [syn: piloting, pilotage]
• portage 0
  n 1: the cost of carrying or transporting 2: overland track between navigable waterways 3: carrying boats and supplies overland
• postage 0
  n 1: the charge for mailing something 2: a small adhesive token stuck on a letter or package to indicate that that postal fees have been paid [syn: postage, postage stamp, stamp]
• reportage 0
  n 1: the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television; "they accused the paper of biased coverage of race relations" [syn: coverage, reporting, reportage]
• saxifrage 0
  n 1: any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga [syn: saxifrage, breakstone, rockfoil]
• shortage 0
  n 1: the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit" [syn: deficit, shortage, shortfall] 2: an acute insufficiency [syn: dearth, famine, shortage]
• spinach 0
  n 1: southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves [syn: spinach, spinach plant, prickly-seeded spinach, Spinacia oleracea] 2: dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads
• tonnage 0
  n 1: a tax imposed on ships that enter the US; based on the tonnage of the ship [syn: tonnage, tunnage, tonnage duty]
• vantage 0
  n 1: place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective) 2: the quality of having a superior or more favorable position; "the experience gave him the advantage over me" [syn: advantage, vantage] [ant: disadvantage]
• vestige 0
  n 1: an indication that something has been present; "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"; "a tincture of condescension" [syn: trace, vestige, tincture, shadow]
• vintage 0
  n 1: a season's yield of wine from a vineyard 2: the oldness of wines [syn: vintage, time of origin]
• voltage 0
  n 1: the rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit; expressed in volts [syn: voltage, electromotive force, emf] 2: the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts [syn: electric potential, potential, potential difference, potential drop, voltage]
• wastage 0
  n 1: the process of wasting 2: anything lost by wear or waste
• wattage 0
  n 1: the product of voltage and current [syn: electrical power, electric power, wattage]
• greenwich 0
  n 1: a borough of Greater London on the Thames; zero degrees of longitude runs through Greenwich; time is measured relative to Greenwich Mean Time
• concubinage 0
  n 1: cohabitation without being legally married
• rootage 0
  n 1: fixedness by or as if by roots; "strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith" 2: a developed system of roots [syn: rootage, root system] 3: the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" [syn: beginning, origin, root, rootage, source]
• anecdotage 0
• chaperonage 0
• libertinage 0
• vicinage 0
• pannage 0
• unmanage 0
• micromanage 0
• dunnage 0
• floatage 0
• tannage 0
• cranage 0
• thanage 0
• tentage 0
• ventage 0
• sacerdotage 0
• scutage 0

See also advantage definition and advantage synonyms