lotto

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards

Borrowed from Italian lotto. Doublet of lot.

After dinner, in the large drawing-room, everybody played lotto, without enjoyment, while the wind whistled madly around the house. — Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant, Guy de Maupassant
With the red of her cheeks and the red of her lips she had something of the look of Lorenzo Lotto's lovely ladies, except for a certain sharp slenderness, a slenderness which came, I was to learn later, from an utter indifference to the claims of appetite. — The Gay Cockade, Temple Bailey
The thing came to pass according to his wish, for Messer Lotto Gualandi gave him to wife a daughter of his, Bartolomea by name, one of the fairest and handsomest young ladies of Pisa, albeit there be few there that are not very lizards to look upon. — The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, Giovanni Boccaccio

bingo, beano, keno

Type a word, a sentence, a book title, or a link to an English article. WordNet and the Classics answer.

Try

A library of classics · a vault of words · instant etymology & meaning