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1. (n.) lottery
a gambling game or method of raising money in which a large number of tickets are sold and a drawing is held for prizes.
2. lottery
a drawing of lots.
3. lottery
any happening or process that is or appears to be determined by chance:
Life is a lottery.
Etymology: (1560–70; < D loterij; see lot , -ery)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) lottery
something that is regarded as a chance event
"the election was just a lottery to them"
2. (noun) lottery, drawing
players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots
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1. (noun) lottery
a method of raising money in which people buy a ticket and try to guess a set of winning numbers
the Massachusetts state lottery
2. lottery
a system of choosing who will get to do or have sth by selecting from a number of people who have applied
The city has a lottery system for choosing schools.
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) lottery
a scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance
2. (noun) lottery
allotment; thing allotted
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Sense: the sharing out of money or prizes won by chance, through drawing lots
They held a public lottery in aid of charity.
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 Afrikaans: lotery |
 Arabic: يانصيب |
 Bulgarian: лотария |
 Brazilian: loteria |
 Czech: loterie |
 German: die Lotterie |
 Danish: lotteri |
 Greek: λαχειοφόρος αγορά |
 Spanish: lotería |
 Estonian: loterii |
 Farsi: بخت آزمایی |
 Finnish: lotto |
 French: loterie |
 Hebrew: לוֹטוֹ |
 Hindi: लाटरी |
 Croatian: lutrija |
 Hungarian: lottó |
 Indonesian: undian |
 Icelandic: happdrætti |
 Italian: lotteria |
 Japanese: くじ |
 Korean: 복권 |
 Lithuanian: loterija |
 Latvian: loterija |
 Malay: loteri |
 Dutch: loterij |
 Norwegian: lotteri, utlodning |
 Polish: loteria |
 Persian: بخت آزمایی |
 Pashto: لاترى |
 Portuguese: lotaria |
 Romanian: loterie |
 Russian: лотерея |
 Slovak: lotéria |
 Slovenian: loterija |
 Serbian: lutrija |
 Swedish: lotteri |
 Thai: สลากกินแบ่ง |
 Turkish: piyango |
 Taiwanese: 抽獎 |
 Ukrainian: лотерея |
 Urdu: قمار بازی |
 Vietnamese: xổ số |
 Chinese: 彩券，抽彩给奖法 |
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