lot
Meaning
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- A large quantity or number; a great deal.
- A separate, appropriated portion; a quantized, subdivided set consisting a whole.
- One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
- (informal) A number of people taken collectively.
- A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
- That which happens without human design or forethought.
- Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
- The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without one's planning.
- A prize in a lottery.
- Allotment; lottery.
- All members of a set; everything.
- 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.
Synonyms
plot of land
tidy sum
good deal
building lot
large amount
quite a little
very many
pass around
production run
screen off
spunk
water of life
cast lots
goose grease
great many
land site
large number
one’s lot
piece of land
to the utmost
one’s status
whole thing
a great amount
items in auction
spuff
building ground
melted butter
period of play
playing period
batch quantity
a whole lot
building side
hot fish yoghurt
whore's milk
nut custard
Zinzanbrook
joombye
tatty water
French-fried ice-cream
tail-juice
Aphrodite's Evostick
population paste
father-stuff
Valentines Day porridge
pugwash
love butter
banana yoghurt
Cupid's toothpaste
liquid hairdressing
manfat
man cake batter
Gloy
man-fat
tadpole yoghurt
prick-juice
spunck
doll spit
love nectar
man oil
white blow
gonad glue
man mayonnaise
cock porridge
herbalz
baby juice
hocky
white wee-wee
jessom
spla water
manmuck
hot juice
gentleman's relish
hot milk
jizzle
little tadpoles
batch size
component part
film studio
lot size
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/lɒt/
Etymology
From Middle English lot, from Old English hlot (“portion, choice, decision”), 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.
Cognate with Western Frisian
lot
Cognate with Dutch
lot
Cognate with French
lot
Cognate with German
Los
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