lot
noun
1. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
- a lot of money
Similar word(s): batch, deal, flock, hatful, heap, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, wad
Definition categories: quantity
2. a parcel of land having fixed boundaries
- he bought a lot on the lake
Definition categories: location, parcel, tract
3. an unofficial association of people or groups
- they were an angry lot
Similar word(s): band, circle, set
Definition categories: group
4. your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
- has a happy lot
Similar word(s): circumstances, destiny, fate, fortune, luck, portion
Definition categories: state, condition
5. anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random
- they drew lots for it
Similar word(s): draw
Definition categories: man–made, object
6. any collection in its entirety
Similar word(s): bunch, caboodle
Definition categories: group, accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection
7. (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
Definition categories: person
Sentences with lot as a noun:
- to spend a lot of money;
- a lot of stationery
- a sorry lot; a bad lot
- a building lot in a city
- to cast lots;
- The table was loaded with food, but by evening there was nothing but crumbs; we had eaten the lot.
- If I were in charge, I'd fire the lot of them.
verb
1. divide into lots, as of land, for example
Definition categories: social, dissever, divide, separate, split
2. administer or bestow, as in small portions
Similar word(s): administer, allot, deal, dispense, distribute
Definition categories: possession, give