English Explanatory Dictionary

lot

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A large quantity or number; a great deal.
  2. A separate, appropriated portion; a quantized, subdivided set consisting a whole.
  3. One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
  4. A number of people taken collectively.
  5. A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
  6. That which happens without human design or forethought.
  7. Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
  8. The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without one's planning.
  9. A prize in a lottery.
  10. Allotment; lottery.
  11. All members of a set; everything.
  12. 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.
verb
  1. To allot; to sort; to apportion.
  2. To count or reckon (on or upon).
name
  1. A nephew of Abraham in the Bible and Quran.
  2. A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin; rare today.
name
  1. A department of Occitania, France. Capital: Cahors (INSEE code 46).
  2. A right tributary of the Garonne, in southern France, flowing through the departments of Lozère, Cantal, Aveyron, Lot and Lot-et-Garonne.

Pronunciation

lŏt /lɒt/ /lɔt/ En-uk-a lot.ogg /lɑt/ en-us-lot.ogg lät LL-Q1860 (eng)-Sumxr-Lot.wav

Word forms

lot lots lotting lotted Lut

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.

Synonyms

abundance battalion arseload assload bellyload boatload brimful busload bucketful bucketload butt-ton bumload buttload cartload crapload deal fuckload fuckton fuckwad 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 shitful shitload shitton sight slew spadeloads sum superflux ton trainload truckload tun vaultful wagonload batch collection group set crowd

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 cellphone lot cell phone lot cowlot crook in the lot cross lots distribution lot do a lot of work draw lots drop 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

Translations

Bulgarian: група Bulgarian: множество Bulgarian: участ Finnish: erä Finnish: osa Finnish: kohtalo French: groupe French: ensemble French: lot French: sort Galician: lote German: Menge German: Los German: Charge German: Haufen German: Anzahl German: Schicksal Hebrew: חלוקה Hebrew: גּוֹרָל Italian: gruppo Italian: insieme Italian: quantità Portuguese: quantidade Swedish: mängd Swedish: lott Ottoman Turkish: حصه Ottoman Turkish: قسط Azerbaijani: tale Azerbaijani: qismət Esperanto: sorto Faroese: lagna Ancient Greek: πότμος Hungarian: sors Irish: cinniúint Japanese: 宿命 Latin: sors Latin: pars Mongolian: хувь Plautdietsch: Schikjsol Polish: przeznaczenie Polish: los
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