Meanings
- Describing one who bets or gambles.
If I were a betting man, I'd wager my next pay check he couldn't do that again.
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of bet
plural bettings
- The act of placing a bet.
Once the field was prepared, and preliminaries of the game all settled, the bettings all made and goods all “staked,” night came on without the appearance of any players on the ground.
1989, Jesse O. McKee, The Choctaw
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivepreoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Arabic مُرَاهَنَة
- مُرَاهَنَة (murāhana)act of placing a bet
Finnish vedonlyönti
- vedonlyöntiact of placing a bet
German Wetten
- Wettenact of placing a bet
Portuguese aposta
- apostaact of placing a bet
Russian бе́ттинг
- бе́ттинг (bétting)act of placing a bet
Spanish envidada, apuesta
- envidadaact of placing a bet
- apuestaact of placing a bet
Swedish vadslagning
- vadslagningact of placing a bet
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with betting
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Cite this entry
betting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/betting
“betting.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/betting. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “betting,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/betting.
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