Noun: lottery
| Singular | lottery |
| Plural | lotteries |
Sample Sentences
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Dave plays the lottery almost every week, but always picks different numbers.
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It's a bit of a lottery whether we'll get a good table in that diner.
Nouns inflected like lottery
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Italian Nouns '
lotteria', Old English Nouns '
hlot', English Nouns '
lot', French Nouns '
loterie'.
Verbs referencing "lottery"
Polish Nouns
loteria.