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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards [syn: lotto, bingo, beano, keno]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Italian, lottery, lotto, from French lot lot, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English hlot lot Date: 1778 a game of chance resembling bingo

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a game of chance like bingo, but with numbers drawn instead of called. Etymology: It.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lotto Lot"to, n. [F. loto or It. lotto, prop., a lot; of German origin. See Lot.] A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called keno. [Often written loto.]