lottery winner
5
2.0
- noun
- /ˈlɑːtəri ˈwɪnər/
:
ganador de la lotería
- Most lottery winners struggle with managing their newfound wealth effectively.
- a million-dollar lottery winner
- a lucky lottery winner
- many lottery winners
Look, if you look at the amount of lottery winners that end up staying lottery winners, it's minute.
- Look, if you look at the amount of lottery winners that end up staying lottery winners, it's minute.
- If you ask them right after the good or bad thing happened to them, of course the lottery winners, way happier.
- These types of scenarios, as we've just seen, have all played out for many lottery winners.
- So, you know, lottery winners, you know, are not happy, but the people who actually give their money away are.
- Well know, people like that, lottery winners, dudes in and out of our industry, every industry that's not successful, that was foolish.
Examples
-
Although myths and stereotypes about lottery winners tend to be negative (e.g., winners become extravagant), people continue to spend billions of dollars buying lottery tickets in the hope of winning.
Academic text (2004) -
It's why most lottery winners end up broke and in much worse position than when they started.
-
There was one other lottery winner that never came forward.
-
Most lottery winners run through their money in five years or less.
Blog text (9) -
The theme is that lottery winners have the same financial and social issues that other people have.
Blog text (9) -
However, most of those people hated their jobs... the most successful lottery winners continued working.
Blog text (3) -
A quick search shows dozens of stories about lottery winners filing for bankruptcy and inheritances that were spent within months of receipt.
Blog text (23) -
One of the first lottery winners I ever got to know was the divorcing spouse of a guy who won the lottery.
Blog text (9) -
According to Kaplan, the mythology surrounding lottery winners includes the belief that they become frivolous with money, quit their jobs, and splurge on bigger houses and cars.
Academic text (2004) -
The man bore the dazed grin of a lottery winner after checking his ticket.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A person or team that beats others in a competition
34
1.5
A person chosen to receive a prize in a contest or lottery
2
2.7
A person or thing that wins a prize in a contest
How Often
- US
5
2.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who has won a lottery' is directly and compositionally derived from 'lottery' (a prize game) + 'winner' (someone who wins). This straightforward noun–noun combination follows common compounding patterns found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Lottery winner comes from the simple image of a person whose lottery ticket is chosen and who becomes the winner of a big prize, like someone being handed a giant check on stage. So a lottery winner is someone who has 'won a prize' in a lottery.