A lottery is a contest where players buy tickets and have a random (and low) chance of winning. Finding true love and getting hit by lightning are often said to be as likely as winning the lottery.
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 tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance.
Noun
players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed according to the drawing of lots
Noun
something that is regarded as a chance event; "the election was just a lottery to them"
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 tickets are blanks. Fig. : An
affair of chance.
n.
Allotment; thing allotted.
Lottery
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 tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance.
Usage Examples
A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.
My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.
The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
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Other Usage ExamplesI think people really marry far too much it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.
If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.
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