lotteries
- 1Plural of lottery.
National lotteries draw millions of hopeful players each week.
Several charities fund their programs through small local lotteries.
Note
A regular plural: the final -y follows a consonant, so it becomes -ies, just as with lottery and lotteries. Most often it counts separate prize-drawing schemes, national ones or small charity ones, each with its own tickets and draws. The figurative use, something decided by chance, can take the plural when several such gambles are in view. The obsolete meaning of an allotment belongs only to older writing.
lotteries is a form of lottery
lottery, noun: A scheme for handing out prizes by chance, in which numbered tickets are drawn and only some win while the rest come up blank. Full entry
- Forms
- lotterylotteries plural
- Spelling
- lottery → lotteries: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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