Usually means: Game of chance, monetary prizes.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word lottery:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. lottery: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lottery: Merriam-Webster
  3. lottery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lottery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lottery: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lottery: Vocabulary.com
  7. lottery: Wordnik
  8. lottery: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lottery: Wiktionary
  10. lottery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lottery: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lottery: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Lottery, lottery: Dictionary.com
  14. lottery: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. lottery: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Lottery (K Camp song), Lottery (disambiguation), Lottery (film), Lottery (horse), Lottery (novel), Lottery (probability), Lottery (short story), Lottery (song), Lottery, Lottery, The Lottery (TV series), The Lottery (short story), The Lottery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Lottery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. lottery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. lottery: Rhymezone
  20. lottery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. lottery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. lottery: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. lottery: FreeDictionary.org
  24. lottery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. lottery: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Lottery: Investopedia
  3. lottery: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  5. Lottery (prizewinning): Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lottery (prizewinning), lottery: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lottery (prizewinning): Medical dictionary
  2. lottery: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lottery: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The lottery: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See lotteries as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.
noun:  (figuratively) Something decided by chance.
noun:  (obsolete) Allotment; a thing allotted.

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