lottery

/'lɔtəri/

Thân thiện

People buy lottery tickets at a convenience store.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A gambling game or method of raising money: A lottery is a game of chance in which participants purchase tickets, and winners are selected through a random drawing. Prizes are often monetary.
   • An event or process regarded as governed by chance: Something whose outcome is unpredictable and seems to depend on luck rather than skill or planning.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:
  • She won a large sum of money in the state lottery.
  • Getting a visa in time felt like a lottery due to the long processing delays.
  • The allocation of parking spaces was a complete lottery.

Advanced Usage

• "to be a lottery": Used to describe a situation that is unpredictable and depends entirely on luck.
  • Finding a taxi in the rain is a real lottery.
• "lottery ticket": The physical or digital slip purchased for a chance to win a lottery.
  • He checked his lottery ticket against the winning numbers.

Variants and Related Words

• Lotteries (n): Plural form of lottery.
• Lottery draw (n): The specific event where winning numbers or tickets are randomly selected.
• Lottery winner (n): A person who wins a prize in a lottery.

Synonyms

• Raffle: A lottery in which prizes are typically goods rather than money.
• Draw: The act of selecting winners randomly.
• Game of chance: Any activity where the outcome is primarily determined by random luck.

Related Phrases

• Winning the lottery: To have one's ticket selected in a lottery draw; often used figuratively to mean an unexpected, large piece of good fortune.
  • Getting that job was like winning the lottery.
• Lottery jackpot: The largest cash prize offered in a lottery game.
  • The lottery jackpot has rolled over to $50 million.

Idioms

• A lottery of life: A phrase suggesting that the circumstances of one's birth and life are determined by chance.
  • He believed success was a lottery of life, not just hard work.
• It's all a lottery: An expression meaning that an outcome is completely random and uncertain.
  • With so many qualified applicants, who gets the interview is all a lottery.

Học thuật

Noun

1. players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots
2. something that is regarded as a chance event
   • the election was just a lottery to them

Từ đồng nghĩa

• drawing