"prize draw" meaning in English

See prize draw in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: prize draws [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} prize draw (plural prize draws)
  1. A competition, such as a lottery or raffle, in which participants obtain a random chance to win a prize. Synonyms: prize-draw, prizedraw
    Sense id: en-prize_draw-en-noun-xq7S4N19 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for prize draw meaning in English (1.7kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "prize draws",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "prize draw (plural prize draws)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, Mark Gawlinski, Interactive Television Production",
          "text": "Dishwasher owners were then offered the choice betweena free 75p Finish coupon and a free mint dishwasher freshener sample, before being entered into a prize draw for a Whirlpool 6th Sense dishwasher.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Antonia Chitty, Making Money Online",
          "text": "Ask them to invite their relevant friends, share links to your new groups via other social media, and offer a prize draw when you reach your first 100 or 500 followers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Michael Bond, Monsieur Pamplemousse On the Spot",
          "text": "'On Saturdays,'said Fräulein Brünnhilde unexpectedly, 'they have a prize draw. There is a token for the first one they open. With the token you can buy a book. They have never opened one of mine. I have never won a prize.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A competition, such as a lottery or raffle, in which participants obtain a random chance to win a prize."
      ],
      "id": "en-prize_draw-en-noun-xq7S4N19",
      "links": [
        [
          "competition",
          "competition"
        ],
        [
          "lottery",
          "lottery"
        ],
        [
          "raffle",
          "raffle"
        ],
        [
          "random",
          "random"
        ],
        [
          "chance",
          "chance"
        ],
        [
          "win",
          "win"
        ],
        [
          "prize",
          "prize"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "prize-draw"
        },
        {
          "word": "prizedraw"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "prize draw"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "prize draws",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "prize draw (plural prize draws)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, Mark Gawlinski, Interactive Television Production",
          "text": "Dishwasher owners were then offered the choice betweena free 75p Finish coupon and a free mint dishwasher freshener sample, before being entered into a prize draw for a Whirlpool 6th Sense dishwasher.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Antonia Chitty, Making Money Online",
          "text": "Ask them to invite their relevant friends, share links to your new groups via other social media, and offer a prize draw when you reach your first 100 or 500 followers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Michael Bond, Monsieur Pamplemousse On the Spot",
          "text": "'On Saturdays,'said Fräulein Brünnhilde unexpectedly, 'they have a prize draw. There is a token for the first one they open. With the token you can buy a book. They have never opened one of mine. I have never won a prize.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A competition, such as a lottery or raffle, in which participants obtain a random chance to win a prize."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "competition",
          "competition"
        ],
        [
          "lottery",
          "lottery"
        ],
        [
          "raffle",
          "raffle"
        ],
        [
          "random",
          "random"
        ],
        [
          "chance",
          "chance"
        ],
        [
          "win",
          "win"
        ],
        [
          "prize",
          "prize"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "prize-draw"
    },
    {
      "word": "prizedraw"
    }
  ],
  "word": "prize draw"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.