lotto
- n a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards
losses
- n something lost (especially money lost at gambling)
- n something that is lost
- n gradual decline in amount or activity
- n the act of losing someone or something
- n the disadvantage that results from losing something
- n the experience of losing a loved one
- n the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
- n military personnel lost by death or capture
- n euphemistic expressions for death
lost-and-found
- n repository in a public building where lost articles can be kept until their owners reclaim them
lost cause
- n a defeated cause or a cause for which defeat is inevitable
lost tribes
- n the ten Tribes of Israel that were deported into captivity in Assyria around 720 BC (leaving only the tribes of Judah and Benjamin)
lot
- n (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
a lot of money - n a parcel of land having fixed boundaries
he bought a lot on the lake - n an unofficial association of people or groups
they were an angry lot - n your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
has a happy lot - n anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random
they drew lots for it - n any collection in its entirety
- n (Old Testament) nephew of Abraham; God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah but chose to spare Lot and his family who were told to flee without looking back at the destruction
- v divide into lots, as of land, for example
- v administer or bestow, as in small portions