Raffle

Synonyms for raffle:

Sense 1

spelling bee, bake-off.

Sense 2

pageant, beauty contest, drawing.

gamble

bet.

Other synonyms and related words:

dust, debris, Spilth, Offscouring, dross, refuse, garbage, pageant, chaff, offal, bet, junk, truck, dreck, riffraff, drawing, trash, Deadwood, effluvium, anger, litter.

Sense 2 (noun)

pageant, beauty contest, spelling bee, bake-off.

lottery for a prize (noun)

bet, drawing.

raffle (noun)

raffle off.

sweepstakes (noun)

bet, drawing.

possession (verb)

raffle off.

Usage examples for raffle:

• The Englishman, wishing to retrieve his phaeton and horses, which he protested only to have lent his belle, found that she had put the whole equipage into a kind of lottery, or raffle, to which all her numerous friends had subscribed, and that an Altona Jew had won it. - "The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte", Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton.