lottery winner
Sudden fortune holder
A lottery winner is someone who has won a lottery—a game of chance where participants purchase tickets for a drawing.
The term often implies a large cash prize: The lottery winner claimed her $50 million jackpot.
Figuratively, it describes anyone who has experienced exceptional luck or an improbable windfall: Getting that apartment in Manhattan made me feel like a lottery winner.
- jackpotAccumulated gambling prize
- mega millionsHuge amounts in sevens
- millionairePerson possessing great wealth
- fortuneWealth or destiny
- rags to richesDramatic upward social mobility
lucky · fifteen minutes · ticket · numbers · prize · lump sum · windfall · cash · wealthy · rich · lotto · lucky numbers · powerball · odds · big check · drawing · celebration · champagne
- rare thingsdiamonds, gold, pearls, platinum, rubies
- lotteriesball machine, drawing, random draw, weekly drawing, tickets
- recipientsrecipient, beneficiary, payee, grantee, addressee
- Rags to RichesCinderella, Rocky, Aladdin, Slumdog Millionaire, Annie
- success storiesrags to riches, success story, underdog story, comeback story, zero to hero
- uplifting storiessuccess story, comeback story, underdog story, redemption story, survival story
source of wealth
lottery winnerwage earner
Paid labor participant
self-made millionaire · earner · hard worker · laborer · working stiff