Lottery vs Lottomania - What's the difference?
lottery | lottomania |
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.
(figuratively) An affair of chance.
(obsolete, Shakespeare) Allotment; a thing allotted.
(informal) Enthusiasm for playing the lottery.
* 1992 , Forbes (volume 149, issues 5-9)
* 1994 , Linda Schinke-Llano, Time: Reaching for Tomorrow
As nouns the difference between lottery and lottomania
is that lottery is 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 while lottomania is enthusiasm for playing the lottery.lottery
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(wikipedia lottery)Noun
(lotteries)lottomania
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Noun
(-)- The lottomania (Forbes , Mar. 6, 1989) that sent state lottery revenues to more than $20 billion last year has finally run out of steam. Revenue gains are slackening off...
- As lottomania has swept the nation, one result is an entirely new social stratum of millionaires...