STAKES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stakes mean? 

• STAKES (noun)
  The noun STAKES has 1 sense:

1. the money risked on a gamble

  Familiarity information: STAKES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STAKES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The money risked on a gamble

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

bet; stake; stakes; wager

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

gamble (money that is risked for possible monetary gain)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stakes"):

jackpot; kitty; pot (the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker))

ante ((poker) the initial contribution that each player makes to the pot)

kitty; pool (the combined stakes of the betters)

Holonyms ("stakes" is a part of...):

pool (any communal combination of funds)

 Context examples 

But Tom Oliver is there with the ropes and stakes.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were twenty Indians from the river, with stakes, ropes, and all that could be useful for bridging the chasm.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ronald Adair was fond of cards—playing continually, but never for such stakes as would hurt him.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. Strong was just coming out of the garden, where Mr. Dick yet lingered, busy with his knife, helping the gardener to point some stakes.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They have a kind of tree, which at forty years old loosens in the root, and falls with the first storm: it grows very straight, and being pointed like stakes with a sharp stone (for the Houyhnhnms know not the use of iron), they stick them erect in the ground, about ten inches asunder, and then weave in oat straw, or sometimes wattles, between them.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Tom Owen and his assistant, Fogo, with the help of the ring-keepers, plucked up the stakes and ropes, and carried them off across country.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The stakes are two thousand pounds against a thousand, two hundred to be paid by the winner to his man; play or pay.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“There are heavy stakes upon the event—very heavy stakes,” said my uncle.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As referee I order that the men be withdrawn, and that the stakes be returned to their owners.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Sir,” said my uncle, raising his hat in his most impressive manner, “I am infinitely obliged to you. With the referee’s permission, there is nothing for it but to shift the stakes.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)