Lottery

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A contest in which tokens are distributed or sold, the winning token or tokens being secretly predetermined or ultimately selected in a random drawing.
  • n. A selection made by lot from a number of applicants or competitors: The state uses a lottery to assign spaces in the campground.
  • n. An activity or event regarded as having an outcome depending on fate: They considered combat duty a lottery.
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  • n. A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance, especially a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, the other tickets are blanks.
  • n. An affair of chance.
  • n. Allotment; a thing allotted.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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 the tickets are blanks.
  • n. Allotment; thing allotted.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Distribution of anything by lot; allotment; also, the drawing of lots; determination by chance or fate; random choice; matter of chance: as, the lottery of life.
  • n. A scheme for raising money by selling chances to share in a distribution of prizes; more specifically, a scheme for the distribution of prizes by chance among persons purchasing tickets, the correspondingly numbered slips, or lots, representing prizes or blanks, being drawn from a wheel on a day previously announced in connection with the scheme of intended prizes.
  • n. The lot or portion falling to one's share; a chance allotment or prize.
  • n. A children's picture or print.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots
  • n. something that is regarded as a chance event
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    chance event    stroke    accident    fortuity   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    allotment    gamble    tombola    little go    raffle   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    pottery   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    jackpot    gamble    tournament   
     
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