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raffles

/ˈɹæfəlz/

raffles is the plural of raffle.

raffles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of raffle.

Meaning of raffle

Noun (1)

raffle (plural raffles)

  1. A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.
    • He entered a raffle to win a lifetime supply of toothpaste, but he did not win.
  2. (obsolete) A game of dice in which the player who throws three of the same number wins all the stakes.
  3. (Philippines) The system by which cases are assigned to judges in multi-sala courts.

Noun (2)

raffle (uncountable)

  1. (dated) Refuse; rubbish.
    • the oversurviving raffle of half-green things which the gentle winter has suffered to live

See all 6 meanings of raffle

Proper noun capitalized: Raffles

Raffles

  1. A surname.
  2. (colloquial) The Raffles Hotel, Singapore.

Origin of raffles

May come from a Scandinavian source like Old Norse refr (“fox”) + hol (“hole”), or comes from Raphael, with a patronymic suffix -s.

Words formed from raffles

Phrases with raffles

Questions about raffles

What does raffles mean?
Raffles means a surname.
What is raffles the plural of?
Raffles is the plural of raffle.
What part of speech is raffles?
Raffles is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce raffles?
Raffles is pronounced /ˈɹæfəlz/.

Words near raffles in the dictionary

  1. raffle sale
  2. raffle sales
  3. raffled
  4. raffler
  5. rafflers
  6. raffles
  7. Raffles's malkoha
  8. Raffles's malkohas
  9. rafflesia
  10. rafflesiaceous
  11. Rafflesian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: raffles (page history and authors); Raffles (page history and authors); raffle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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