odds Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun the likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring
noun the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another
betting odds.
- he offered odds of two to one

See Odd, a.

Difference in favor of one and against another; excess of one of two things or numbers over the other; inequality; advantage; superiority; hence, excess of chances; probability. "Preëminent by so much odds." Milton. "The fearful odds of that unequal fray." Trench.
The odds Is that we scare are men and you are gods. Shak.

There appeared, at least, four to one odds against them. Swift.

All the odds between them has been the different s "cope....given to their understandings to range in. Locke.

Judging is balancing an account and determining on which side the odds lie. Locke.
Quarrel; dispute; debate; strife; -- chiefly in the phraze at odds.
Set them into confounding odds. Shak.

I can not speak Any beginning to this peevish odds. Shak.