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Definition of Lottery
1. Noun. Something that is regarded as a chance event. "The election was just a lottery to them"
2. Noun. Players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots.
Specialized synonyms: Tombola, Lucky Dip, Numbers, Numbers Game, Numbers Pool, Numbers Racket, Raffle, Sweepstakes
Generic synonyms: Gambling Game, Game Of Chance
Derivative terms: Draw
Definition of Lottery
1. 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. Fig.: An affair of chance.
Definition of Lottery
1. 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. ¹
2. Noun. (figuratively) An affair of chance. ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete Shakespeare) Allotment; a thing allotted. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lottery
1. a type of gambling game [n -TERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lottery
Literary usage of Lottery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1903)
"the purported lottery or chance company, to wit, at the purported monthly drawing
of the so-called Pan-American lottery Company, which purported to draw ..."
2. The Constitutional Law of the United States by Westel Woodbury Willoughby (1910)
"at different banks in the United States to be applied by the agents representing
the lottery company to the prompt payment of prizes. ..."
3. Publications by American Sociological Association, American Sociological Society (1895)
"The Cantonese authorities were thus checkmated, and the lottery was carried ...
determined to put an end to the lottery. In spite of his efforts, however, ..."
4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"The word lottery "embraces the elements of procuring, through lot or chance, by
the investment of a sum of money or something of value, some greater amount ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reportsby Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"to devest itself entirely of all connection with, control over, and responsibility
for, this lottery, and substituted the purchaser in their place. ..."
6. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1910)
"The lottery evil, he said, has become so serious in its results, so pernicious
... We cannot pass a lottery office without beholding a throng of adventurers ..."
7. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1892)
"Many an advocate of the lottery on charitable grounds has proven later to be a
... He gave quiet help in getting the lottery into the Constitution of 1879. ..."
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