odd
Pronunciation: /ɒd/
The English word “odd” has 16 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
- Peculiar, singular and strange in looks or character; eccentric, bizarre.
- Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; (of a pair or set) mismatched.
- Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped.
- Left over or remaining (as a small amount) after counting, payment, etc.
- Scattered; occasional, infrequent; not forming part of a set or pattern.
- Not regular or planned.
- Used or employed for odd jobs.
- Numerically indivisible by two.
- Numbered with an odd number.
- About, approximately; somewhat more than (an approximated round number).
- Out of the way, secluded.
- On the left.
- Singular in excellence; matchless; peerless; outstanding.
noun
Etymology
From Middle English odde, od (“odd (not even); leftover after division into pairs”), from Old Norse oddi (“odd, third or additional number; triangle”), from oddr (“point of a weapon”), from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz (“point”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to stick, prick, pierce, sting”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to set, place”). Cognate to Icelandic oddi (“triangle, point of land, odd number”), Swedish udda…
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