## Meanings
1. A game in which people buy numbered tickets and win prizes if their numbers are chosen by chance.
2. Something whose result depends on luck rather than skill.

## Examples
- Dave plays the lottery almost every week.
- Getting a good table at that restaurant is a bit of a lottery.

## Derived Forms
- antilottery
- e-lottery
- lotologist
- lotterylike
- nonlottery

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: lotteria

## 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.

## AI Etymology
Lottery was 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. In present-day English its meanings include a game in which people buy numbered tickets and win prizes if their numbers are chosen by chance and something whose result depends on luck rather than skill. Related and derived forms include antilottery, e-lottery, and lotologist.

## Topics
- Sports & Fitness

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