Lot

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Informal A large extent, amount, or number. Often used in the plural: is in a lot of trouble; has lots of friends.
  • n. Informal Used adverbially with a or in the plural to mean "to a great degree or extent” or "frequently”: felt a lot better; ran lots faster; doesn't go out a whole lot; has seen her lots lately.
  • n. A piece of land having specific boundaries, especially one constituting a part of a city, town, or block.
  • n. A piece of land used for a given purpose: a parking lot.
  • n. The complete grounds of a film studio.
  • n. The outdoor area of a film studio.
  • n. An object used in making a determination or choice at random: casting lots.
  • n. The use of objects in making a determination or choice at random: chosen by lot.
  • n. The determination or choice so made.
  • n. Something that befalls one because of or as if because of determination by lot.
  • n. One's fortune in life; fate.
  • n. A number of associated people or things: placating an angry lot of tenants; kids who made a noisy lot.
  • n. Kind; type: That dog is a contented lot.
  • n. Miscellaneous articles sold as one unit.
  • v. To apportion by lots; allot.
  • v. To divide (land) into lots.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A large quantity or number; a great deal.
  • n. A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
  • n. One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
  • n. A number of people taken collectively.
  • n. A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
  • n. That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
  • n. Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
  • n. The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
  • n. A prize in a lottery.
  • n. Allotment; lottery.
  • n. All members of a set; everything.
  • n. An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.
  • v. To allot; to sort; to apportion.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
  • n. Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without man's choice or will.
  • n. The part, or fate, which falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
  • n. A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively; all objects sold in a single purchase transaction; ; -- colloquially, sometimes of people
  • n. A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
  • n. A large quantity or number; a great deal
  • n. A prize in a lottery.
  • v. To allot; to sort; to portion.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A means of determining something by chance; anything (as dice, pieces of paper of different lengths or differently marked, so placed that these differences cannot be perceived) used to decide a choice, advantage, dispute, etc. See to cast lots, to draw lots, below.
  • n. That which is determined or assigned by lot; that which one gets by the drawing or casting of lots, or by some other fortuitous method; a chance allotment, share, or portion, as of land, money, service, etc.
  • n. Share or portion in life allotted in any casual way; station or condition determined by the chances of life; fortune; destiny: as, the lot of the poor.
  • n. Any distinct part or parcel; a portion or part separated from others of the same kind: as, a lot of goods; a lot of furniture. Specifically
  • n. A portion or parcel of land; any piece of land divided off or set apart for a particular use or purpose: as, a building-lot; a pasture-lot; all that lot, piece, or parcel of ground (a formula in legal instruments).
  • n. Proportion or share of taxes.
  • n. Tribute; toll.
  • n. In mining, dues to the lord of the manor for ingress and egress.
  • n. A large or considerable number or amount; a great deal: as, a lot of people: often used in the plural (and the plural even as an adverb, meaning ‘a great deal’): as, he has lots of money.
  • n. plural A game formerly played with roundels on which short verses were written: used as a singular.
  • n. The shoot of a tree.
  • n. Synonyms Hap, destiny, fate, doom, allotment.
  • To allot; assign; distribute; award.
  • To cast lots.
  • n. An individual person: usually with bad.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
  • n. an unofficial association of people or groups
  • n. (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
  • n. any collection in its entirety
  • n. anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random
  • n. a parcel of land having fixed boundaries
  • v. divide into lots, as of land, for example
  • v. administer or bestow, as in small portions
  • n. your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
  • Equivalent
    Verb Form
    lots    lotted    lotting   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Israelite    Hebrew    jew    aggregation    collection    accumulation    assemblage    physical object    object    separate   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    lotting    lotted   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    chance    accident    hazard    fortune    fate    division    share    destiny    quantity    plot   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bhatt    Dot    Kott    Lotte    Mayotte    Minot    Montserrat    Mott    Ott    Sadat   
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    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    kind    plenty    bite    amount    none    couple    bunch    portion    variety    picture