lot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English lot, from Old English hlot (“portion, choice, decision”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlut, from Proto-Germanic *hlutą.
Cognate with North Frisian lod, Saterland Frisian Lot, West Frisian lot, Dutch lot, French lot, German Low German Lott, Middle High German luz. Doublet of lotto. Related also to German Los.
Inflected forms:
form: lots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large quantity or number; a great deal.
pos: noun
examples: win the whole lot (of money); i.e. jackpot
lots of people think so
He wrote to her […] he might be detained in London by a lot of business.
I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out.
gloss: A separate, appropriated portion; a quantized, subdivided set consisting a whole.
pos: noun
examples: a lot of stationery
The Lord divided the land to the tribes, each according to his lot.
gloss: One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
pos: noun
examples: This is an important lot. Very sorry, but we can't go on with the selling until we know more where we are.
gloss: A number of people taken collectively.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: a sorry lot
a bad lot
you lot
gloss: A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
pos: noun
examples: a building lot in a city
The defendants leased a house and lot, in the City of New-York
gloss: That which happens without human design or forethought.
pos: noun
examples: But save my life, which lot before your foot doth lay.
gloss: Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
pos: noun
examples: to cast lots
to draw lots
The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.
If we draw lots, he speeds.
gloss: The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without one's planning.
pos: noun
examples: O visions ill foreseen! Each day's lot's / Enough to bear.
He was but born to try / The lot of man — to suffer and to die.
[…] as Jones alone was discovered, the poor lad bore not only the whole smart, but the whole blame; both which fell again to his lot on the following occasion.
We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.
gloss: A prize in a lottery.
pos: noun
examples: In the lottery[…] Sir R. Haddock one of the Commissrs of the Navy had the greatest lot, £3000 ; my coachman £ 40
gloss: Allotment; lottery.
pos: noun
examples: Archons served only for one year and, since 487/6, they were chosen by lot. Generals, on the other hand, were chosen by direct election and could be reelected without limit.
gloss: All members of a set; everything.
pos: noun
tags: definite
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Synonyms: abundance
battalion
arseload
assload
bellyload
boatload
brimful
busload
bucketful
bucketload
butt-ton
bumload
buttload
cartload
crapflood
crapload
deal
fuckload
fuckton
fuckwad
gob
great deal
hantle
heap
hecatomb
helluvalot
horseload
lashings
load
lot
mampus
many
mass
metric fuckton
metric shitload
mickle
mountain
muckle
multiplicity
multitude
pile
ream
shedload
shitflood
shitful
shitload
shitton
sight
slew
spadeloads
sum
superflux
ton
trainload
truckload
tun
vaultful
wagonload
Antonyms: modicum
Related words: a damn sight
manifold
Derived words: across lots
all over the lot
a lot
a lot of bit
backlot
bad lot
board lot
car lot
carlot
cast in one's lot with
cast one's lot with
cell phone lot
cellphone lot
cowlot
crook in the lot
cross lots
distribution lot
do a lot of work
draw lots
drop lot
ever such a lot
fall to someone's lot
fat lot
fat lot of good
feedlot
flag lot
glass parking lot
have a lot of time
have a lot of time for
helluvalot
home lot
interlot
it takes a lot of living to make a house a home
job lot
leave a lot to be desired
lot-cloth split
lotful
lotholder
lotless
lot lizard
lot mead
lot number
lottery
microlot
multilot
odd lot
parking lot
playlot
round lot
sandlot
scot and lot
seedlot
sidelot
sublot
tax lot
thanks a lot
that's your lot
throw in one's lot with
tick a lot of boxes
tot lot
vacant lot
water lot
wood lot
you lot
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: група
roman: grupa
lang: Bulgarian
word: множество
roman: množestvo
lang: Finnish
word: erä
lang: French
word: groupe
lang: French
word: ensemble
lang: Galician
word: lote
lang: German
word: Menge
lang: German
word: Los
lang: German
word: Charge
lang: German
word: Haufen
lang: German
word: Anzahl
lang: Hebrew
word: חלוקה
roman: khaluqah
lang: Italian
word: gruppo
lang: Italian
word: insieme
lang: Italian
word: quantità
lang: Portuguese
word: quantidade
lang: Swedish
word: mängd
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: حصه
roman: hisse
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قسط
roman: kıst
lang: Azerbaijani
word: tale
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qismət
lang: Bulgarian
word: участ
roman: učast
lang: Esperanto
word: sorto
lang: Faroese
word: lagna
lang: Finnish
word: osa
lang: Finnish
word: kohtalo
lang: French
word: lot
lang: French
word: sort
lang: German
word: Los
lang: German
word: Schicksal
lang: Ancient Greek
word: πότμος
roman: pótmos
lang: Hebrew
word: גּוֹרָל
roman: gorál
lang: Hungarian
word: sors
lang: Irish
word: cinniúint
lang: Japanese
word: 宿命
roman: shukumei
lang: Latin
word: sors
lang: Latin
word: pars
lang: Mongolian
word: хувь
roman: xuvʹ
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Schikjsol
lang: Polish
word: przeznaczenie
lang: Polish
word: los
lang: Swedish
word: lott