Lotto has 2 different meanings across 1 category:
Noun
Noun
1
a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards
"We spent our entire paycheck buying tickets for the lotto, hoping that if enough of the randomly drawn numbers matched ours, we would win big."
2
a game of chance similar to bingo
"The neighbors gathered at the community center every Friday night to play their weekly lotto, hoping someone would match all the numbers in this game of chance similar to bingo."
In plain English: Lotto is a game where you pick numbers and hope to win big money if they match the ones drawn by chance.
"He bought his first ticket at the local shop to play the lotto."
Example Sentences
"He bought his first ticket at the local shop to play the lotto."
noun
"He bought a ticket for the lotto every week hoping to win big."
noun
"Winning the lotto changed their lives overnight with millions in winnings."
noun
"The office pool decided to enter the national lotto together this month."
noun
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
Origin
The word lotto was borrowed directly from Italian to refer to a lottery game. It entered English as a doublet of the older word lot, sharing the same root but developing into a specific term for gambling.