lotteries [lot-uh-ree]
Main Entry:
lottery [lot-uh-ree]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: drawing
Synonyms: Lotto, chance, door prize, gambling, game of chance, luck of the draw, numbers game, raffle, sweepstake
Main Entry: chance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fate, luck
Synonyms: accident, advantage, adventure, bad luck, break, cast, casualty, coincidence, contingency, destination, destiny, doom, even chance, fluke, fortuity, fortune, future, gamble, good luck, hap, haphazard, happening, hazard, heads or tails, hit*, in the cards, kismet, lot, lottery, luck out, lucky break, misfortune, occurrence, odds, outcome, peradventure, peril, providence, risk, stroke of luck, throw of the dice, toss-up, turn of the cards, way the cookie crumbles, wheel of fortune
Antonyms: aim, design, plan, scheme
Main Entry: chance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: gamble, risk
Synonyms: bet, craps game, fall of the cards, hazard, jeopardy, lottery, raffle, speculation, stake, throw of the dice, try, venture, wager
Main Entry: draft
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: military conscription
Synonyms: allotment, assignment, call of duty, call-up, greetings, impressment, induction, letter from Uncle Sam, levy, lottery, recruiting, registration, roll call, selection, selective service
Notes: wind moves horizontally, while a draft moves vertically
Main Entry: gamble
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: chance, speculation
Synonyms: action, bet, fling, leap*, long shot, lottery, outside chance, raffle, risk, shot in the dark, spec, stab*, throw of the dice, toss up, uncertainty, venture, wager
Antonyms: design, guard, insurance, plan, protection, safeguard
Main Entry: game of chance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: game depending on luck
Synonyms: bingo, bridge, canasta, craps, crazy eights, gambling game, gin, gin rummy, lottery, lotto, penny ante, pinochle, poker, roulette, twenty-one, wheel of fortune
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [Absence of purpose in the succession of events] Chance.
Category: 1. Conceptional Volition
Synonyms:
-nouns
chance; lot, fate (necessity); luck; good luck (good); mascot., speculation, venture, stake, game of chance; mere shot, random shot; blind bargain, leap in the dark; pig in a poke (uncertainty); fluke, potluck; faro bank; flyer; limit., drawing lots; sortilegy, sortition; sortes, sortes Virgilianae; rouge et noir, hazard, ante, chuck-a-luck, crack-loo [U.S.], craps, faro, roulette, pitch and toss, chuck, farthing, cup tossing, heads or talls, cross and pile, poker-dice; wager; bet, betting; gambling; the turf., gaming house, gambling house, betting house; bucket shop; joint; totalizator, totalizer; hell; betting ring; dice, dice box; dicer; gambler, gamester; man of the turf; adventurer.
-verbs
chance (hap); stand a chance (be possible)., toss up; cast lots, draw lots; leave to chance, trust to chance, leave to the chapter of accidents, trust to the chapter of accidents; tempt fortune; chance it, take one's chance; run the risk, run the chance, incur the risk, incur the chance, encounter the risk, encounter the chance; stand the hazard of the die., speculate, try one's luck, set on a cast, raffle, put into a lottery, buy a pig in a poke, shuffle the cards., risk, venture, hazard, stake; ante; lay, lay a wager; make a bet, wager, bet, gamble, game, play for; play at chuck farthing.
-adjectives
fortuitous; unintentional, unintended; accidental; not meant; undesigned, purposed; unpremeditated; unforeseen, never thought of., indiscriminate, promiscuous; undirected, random; aimless, driftless, designless, purposeless, causeless; without purpose., possible.
-adverbs
casually; unintentionally; unwittingly., en passant, by the way, incidentally; as it may happen; at random, at a venture, at haphazard.
-phrases
acierta errando; dextro tempore; "fearful concatenation of circumstances" [D. Webster]; "fortuitous combination of circumstances" [Dickens]; le jeu est le fils d'avarice et le pere du desespoic; "the happy combination of fortuitous circumstances" [Scott]; "the fortuitous or casual concourse of
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