Associations to the word «Lottery»

Pictures for the word «Lottery»

Wiktionary

LOTTERY, noun. 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.
LOTTERY, noun. (figuratively) An affair of chance.
LOTTERY, noun. (obsolete) (Shakespeare) Allotment; a thing allotted.
LOTTERY TICKET, noun. A piece of paper drawn in a lottery.

Dictionary definition

LOTTERY, noun. Something that is regarded as a chance event; "the election was just a lottery to them".
LOTTERY, noun. Players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca