lottery

CEFRB1

/ˈlɒtəɹi/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A game in which numbers are chosen by chance for prizes.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Allotment; a thing allotted.

Examples

  • If you were to win the lottery, what would you buy with the money?

  • My mother prefers the arbitrary selection of the lottery machines over my lucky numbers.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Something decided by chance.

  2. 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.

More examples

In context

  • She won ten million yen in the lottery.

  • Dave plays the lottery almost every week, but always picks different numbers.

  • It's a bit of a lottery whether we'll get a good table in that diner.

Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

He bought a ticket for the blank hoping to win a million dollars.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

Borrowed from Italian lotteria, from the same root as Old English hlot (cognate with English lot). Compare French loterie (from Middle Dutch loterie). By surface analysis, lot + -ery.