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Definition: Tombola |
TombolaNoun1. (British) a lottery in which tickets are drawn from a revolving drum. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tombola" was first used: 1880. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Chance 2 | Noun: chance, indetermination, accident, fortune, hazard, hap, haphazard, chance medley, random, luck, raccroc, casualty, contingence, adventure, hit; fate; (necessity); equal chance; lottery; tombola; toss up; turn of the table, turn of the cards; hazard of the die, chapter of accidents, fickle finger of fate; cast of the dice, throw of the dice; heads or tails, flip of a coin, wheel of Fortune; sortes, sortes Virgilianae. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tombola |
| Non-English Usage: "Tombola" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (lucky dip, raffle), French (draw, raffle), German (lottery, raffle, ruffle, tombola), Hungarian (lottery, lotto, raffle, tombola), Italian (bingo, tombola, tumble), Serbo-Croatian (tombola), Swedish (raffle, tombola). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Tombola (1985) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Comité d'assistance en Alsace-Lorraine. Tombola artistique. Exposition du 7 au 30 avril 1916 au Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Journée des Éprouvés de la Guerre. Grande tombola organisée par le Syndicat de la Presse Française. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Grande Tombola. Journée Sarthoise - Pro Patria. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | En Belgique les Belges ont faim. Tombola artistique . . . Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Journée des Éprouvés de la Guerre. Grande tombola organisée par le Syndicat de la Presse Française. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Grande Tombola. Journée Sarthoise - Pro Patria. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | En Belgique les Belges ont faim. Tombola artistique . . . Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Comité d'assistance en Alsace-Lorraine. Tombola artistique. Exposition du 7 au 30 avril 1916 au Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Tombola" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.48% of the time. "Tombola" is used about 46 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.48% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.52% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 46 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tombola | 71 |
tombola uk | 6 |
neopets tombola | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tombola"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tombol (lotto). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | томбола (draw, raffle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | tombola (lottery, raffle, ruffle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τόμπολα (raffle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tombola (lottery, lotto, raffle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tombola (bingo, tumble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 福引き (drawing, lottery), 福引 (drawing, lottery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふくびき (drawing, lottery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ombolatay tômbola (raffle). (various references) tombolã (raffle). (various references) вид лотереи (lucky dip, lucky-bag). (various references) tombola. (various references) tombola (raffle). (various references) tombala (lotto). (various references) Tôngbôla, xổ số. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Italian | 900-Modern | tombolare. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tombola": tombolas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-l-m-o-o-t" | |
-1 letter: abloom, tombal. | |
-2 letters: bloat, bloom, molto, moola, taboo. | |
-3 letters: alto, ambo, atom, balm, blam, blat, blot, boat, bola, bolo, bolt, boom, boot, bota, lamb, loam, lobo, loom, loot, lota, malt, moat, mola, molt, mool, moot, obol, tola, tomb, tool, toom. | |
-4 letters: abo, alb, alt, bal, bam, bat, boa, boo, bot, lab, lam, lat, lob. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-l-m-o-o-t" | |
+1 letter: tombolas. | |
+3 letters: automobile, bottomland, colobomata, promotable. | |
+4 letters: automobiled, automobiles, bloodstream, bottomlands, comfortable, comfortably, footlambert. | |
+5 letters: abolitionism, automobiling, automobilist, automobility, bloodstreams, embolization, footlamberts, glioblastoma, mobilization. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 6F 6D 62 6F 6C 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- --- -- -... --- .-.. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101111 01101101 01100010 01101111 01101100 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T o m b o l a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 006F 006D 0062 006F 006C 0061 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54817968817867 |
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