Thesaurus results for BETTOR

bettor

noun

ˈbe-tər

variants or better

as in gambler

one that bets (as on the outcome of a contest or sports event) bettors on the horse race have to place their bets at least 20 minutes before the start of the race

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Recent Examples of bettor The bettor walked away with reportedly more than $400,000 in winnings. —

Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 6 Mar. 2026 Until recently, Polymarket allowed bettors to wager money over when a nuclear bomb would detonate. —

Bobby Allyn, NPR, 6 Mar. 2026 Several bettors made millions of dollars on predicting when the US would airstrike Iran. —

Frank Landymore, Futurism, 4 Mar. 2026 Similar questions about Polymarket were raised in January when a bettor won more than $400,000 by correctly predicting Nicolás Maduro’s ouster. —

Carlos Garcia, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bettor

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gambler

Noun

Almost 40 million people visited Las Vegas last year, and gamblers wagered $14 billion at Clark County casinos, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

— Jonathan J. Cooper, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026
The amount lost by gamblers keeps going up, as the smartphone becomes the primary means of placing bets.

— Jim Nowlan, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026