name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
wager
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈweɪ.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/
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Canada, General-American: /ˈweɪ.d͡ʒɚ/
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Australian: /ˈwæɪ.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/
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rhymes with -eɪdʒə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: W EY1 JH ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A bet; a stake; a pledge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1842-43, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Mystery of Marie Roget" “This thicket was a singular, an exceedingly singular one. It was unusually dense. Within its naturally walled enclosure were three extraordinary stones, forming a seat with a back and footstool.... , whose boys were in the habit of closely examining the shrubberies about them in search of the bark of the sassafras. Would it be a rash wager – a wager of one thousand to one – that a day never passed over the heads of these boys without finding at least one of them ensconced in the umbrageous hall, and enthroned upon its natural throne? Those who would hesitate at such a wager, have either never been boys themselves, or have forgotten the boyish nature."
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noun
Meaning 3
The subject of a bet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
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noun
Meaning 5
An offer to make oath.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
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noun
Meaning 6
Agent noun of wage; one who wages.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: agent, form-of
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verb
Meaning 7
To bet something; to put it up as collateral.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- I'd wager my boots on it.
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verb
Meaning 8
To suppose; to dare say.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, intransitive
Examples
- I'll wager that Johnson knows something about all this.
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noun
Meaning 9
the act of gambling
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he did it on a bet
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bet
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: gambling, gaming, play
Narrower terms: daily double, exacta, perfecta, parimutuel, parlay, place bet, superfecta
noun
Meaning 10
the money risked on a gamble
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: stake, stakes, bet
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: gamble
Narrower terms: pot, jackpot, kitty, ante, pool
verb
Meaning 11
maintain with or as if with a bet
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- I bet she will be there!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bet
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise
verb
Meaning 12
stake on the outcome of an issue
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- I bet $100 on that new horse
- She played all her money on the dark horse
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bet, play
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: gamble
Narrower terms: bet on, back, gage, stake, game, punt, play, raise, see
History
Etymology
From Middle English wajour, wageour, wager, from Old Northern French wageure, from wagier (“to pledge”) (compare Old French guagier, whence modern French gager and contemporary Walloon wadjî), ultimately from Frankish *waddjōn (“to pledge”), from Frankish *wadi ~ *waddī (“pledge”). See also wage.
Etymology tree English wage Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English wager From wage (verb) + -er.
Across languages
Translations
97 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Basque: trabes — a stake; a pledge
- Bulgarian: бас (bas) — a stake; a pledge
- Bulgarian: облог (oblog) — a stake; a pledge
- Catalan: juguesca — a stake; a pledge
- Catalan: aposta — a stake; a pledge
- Chinese Mandarin: 賭 /赌 (dǔ) — a stake; a pledge
- Czech: sázka — a stake; a pledge
- Esperanto: veto — a stake; a pledge
- Esperanto: vetaĵo — a stake; a pledge
- Finnish: panos — a stake; a pledge
- Finnish: veto — a stake; a pledge
- French: mise — a stake; a pledge
- Georgian: ფსონი (psoni) — a stake; a pledge
- German: Wette — a stake; a pledge
- German: Einsatz — a stake; a pledge
- German: Pfand — a stake; a pledge
- Greek: στοίχημα (stoíchima) — a stake; a pledge
- Greenlandic: eqquiniut — a stake; a pledge
- Hungarian: tét — a stake; a pledge
- Ingrian: veto — a stake; a pledge
- Italian: posta — a stake; a pledge
- Italian: puntata — a stake; a pledge
- Italian: scommessa — a stake; a pledge
- Japanese: 賭け (kake) — a stake; a pledge
- Latin: sponsiō — a stake; a pledge
- Middle English: wajour — a stake; a pledge
- Plautdietsch: Wad — a stake; a pledge
- Portuguese: aposta — a stake; a pledge
- Russian: ста́вка (stávka) — a stake; a pledge
- Serbo-Croatian: ulog — a stake; a pledge
- Spanish: apuesta — a stake; a pledge
- Spanish: envite — a stake; a pledge
- Spanish: envido — a stake; a pledge
- Tagalog: taya — a stake; a pledge
- Ukrainian: ста́вка (stávka) — a stake; a pledge
- Belarusian: закла́д (zaklád) — an agreement
- Bulgarian: обло́г (oblóg) — an agreement
- Bulgarian: бас (bas) — an agreement
- Czech: sázka — an agreement
- Dutch: weddenschap — an agreement
- Esperanto: veto — an agreement
- Finnish: veto — an agreement
- Finnish: vedonlyönti — an agreement
- French: pari — an agreement
- German: Wette — an agreement
- Hungarian: fogadás — an agreement
- Italian: scommessa — an agreement
- Macedonian: облог (oblog) — an agreement
- Middle English: wajour — an agreement
- Polish: zakład — an agreement
- Russian: пари́ (parí) — an agreement
- Russian: закла́д (zaklád) — an agreement
- Slovak: stávka — an agreement
- Ottoman Turkish: بحث (bahs, bahis) — an agreement
- Ukrainian: парі́ (parí) — an agreement
- Ukrainian: закла́д (zaklád) — an agreement
- Chinese Mandarin: 賭注 /赌注 (dǔzhù) — the subject of a bet
- Czech: sázka — the subject of a bet
- Dutch: inzet — the subject of a bet
- Finnish: vedonlyöntikohde — the subject of a bet
- French: mise — the subject of a bet
- German: Wetteinsatz — the subject of a bet
- Greek: στοίχημα (stoíchima) — the subject of a bet
- Japanese: 賭け (kake) — the subject of a bet
- Marathi: जुगार (jugār) — the subject of a bet
- Marathi: पैज (paij) — the subject of a bet
- Middle English: wajour — the subject of a bet
- Portuguese: aposta — the subject of a bet
- Russian: ста́вка (stávka) — the subject of a bet
- Spanish: apuesta — the subject of a bet
- Bulgarian: басирам се (basiram se) — to bet on something
- Bulgarian: обзалагам се (obzalagam se) — to bet on something
- Czech: vsadit si — to bet on something
- Czech: vsadit se — to bet on something
- Czech: uzavřít sázku — to bet on something
- Esperanto: priveti — to bet on something
- French: parier — to bet on something
- German: wetten — to bet on something
- Ingrian: löövvä vettoa — to bet on something
- Māori: peti — to bet on something
- Marathi: पैज लावणे (paij lāvṇe) — to bet on something
- Marathi: पैज मारणे (paij mārṇe) — to bet on something
- Ottoman Turkish: بحث ایتمك (bahs etmek) — to bet on something
- Walloon: wadjî — to bet on something
- Bulgarian: залагам (zalagam) — put up as collateral
- Bulgarian: заложа (založa) — put up as collateral
- Czech: vsadit — put up as collateral
- Dutch: wedden — put up as collateral
- Dutch: weddenschap afsluiten — put up as collateral
- Dutch: verwedden — put up as collateral
- Esperanto: veti — put up as collateral
- Finnish: lyödä vetoa — put up as collateral
- French: parier — put up as collateral
- German: wetten — put up as collateral
- Italian: scommettere — put up as collateral
- Portuguese: apostar — put up as collateral
- Spanish: apostar — put up as collateral