ODDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does odds mean? 

• ODDS (noun)
  The noun ODDS has 2 senses:

1. the likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring

2. the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another

  Familiarity information: ODDS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ODDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("odds" is a kind of...):

likelihood; likeliness (the probability of a specified outcome)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

betting odds; odds

Context example:

he offered odds of two to one

Hypernyms ("odds" is a kind of...):

ratio (the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient))

 Context examples 

“It don't make much odds, do it, now?” asked Dick.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Do you stay here, and the odds are that you will see me again in an hour or two.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sir Lothian Hume is his patron, and to make a long story short, he lays me odds that I won’t find a young one of his weight to meet him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The ratio of the odds of an event occurring in one group to the odds of it occurring in another group, or to a sample-based estimate of that ratio.

(Odds ratio, NCI Thesaurus)

However, they found pre-existing CKD is the most important risk factor for AKI, increasing the odds by as much as 10 times.

(Acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease each a risk of the other, NIH)

Screening can catch tumors sooner, when they’re smaller and easier to treat, increasing survival odds.

(Eating Yogurt May Lower Risk of Colon Cancer in Men, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

They calculate the odds of exposure in both groups and then compare the odds.

(Odds ratio, NCI Dictionary)

Defying the odds, an individual at high risk for early-onset Alzheimer’s disease remained dementia-free for many years beyond what was anticipated.

(Unique case of disease resistance reveals possible Alzheimer’s treatment, National Institutes of Health)

All his days, no matter what the odds, he had never run from a fight.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The greater the odds, the greater the thrill.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)