Definition of
Lot
- (noun, quantity) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
a deal of trouble
a lot of money
he made a mint on the stock market
see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
it must have cost plenty
a slew of journalists
a wad of money - (noun, location) a parcel of land having fixed boundaries
- (noun, group) an unofficial association of people or groups
they were an angry lot - (noun, state) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
deserved a better fate
has a happy lot
the luck of the Irish
a victim of circumstances
success that was her portion - (noun, artifact) anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random
they drew lots for it - (noun, group) any collection in its entirety
- (noun, person) (Old Testament) nephew of Abraham; God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah but chose to spare Lot and his family who were told to flee without looking back at the destruction
- (verb, social) divide into lots, as of land, for example
- (verb, possession) administer or bestow, as in small portions
dole out some money
shell out pocket money for the children
deal a blow to someone
the machine dispenses soft drinks
- (noun, quantity) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
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Synonyms of Lot
administer, allot, band, batch, bunch, caboodle, circle, circumstances, deal, deal out, destiny, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, draw, fate, flock, fortune, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, luck, mass, mess, mete out, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, parcel out, passel, peck, pile, plenty, portion, pot, quite a little, raft, set, shell out, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
Alternate forms of Lot
Derivations: lot
Hyponyms: allot, apply, assign, bad luck, building site, camp, car park, car pool, clique, cohort, company, confederacy, conspiracy, coterie, deal, deluge, failure, flood, four hundred, give, good fortune, good luck, haymow, horsey set, horsy set, ill luck, ingroup, inner circle, inundation, jet set, luckiness, misfortune, pack, park, parking area, parking lot, party, portion, providence, reallot, torrent, tough luck, vacant lot
Hypernyms: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, carve up, collection, condition, dissever, divide, give, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, object, parcel, parcel of land, physical object, piece of ground, piece of land, separate, social group, split, split up, tract
Origin of the word Lot
- O.E. hlot "object (anything from dice to straw, but often a chip of wood with a name inscribed on it) used to determine someone's share," also "what falls to a person by lot," from P.Gmc. *khlutom (cf. O.N. hlutr "lot, share," O.H.G. hluz "share of land," O.E. hleotan "to cast lots, to foretell"), of unknown origin. The object was placed with … more
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