lottery
Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from Italian lotteria, from the same root as Old English hlot (cognate with English lot).
Pronunciation Nounlottery (plural lotteries)
- 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.
- Dave plays the lottery almost every week, but always picks different numbers.
- (figuratively) Something decided by chance.
- It's a bit of a lottery whether we'll get a good table in that diner.
- (obsolete) Allotment; a thing allotted.
- French: loterie
- German: Lotterie
- Italian: lotteria
- Portuguese: lotaria (Portugal), loteria (Brazil)
- Russian: лотере́я
- Spanish: lotería
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