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NOUN | 1 | lot, batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew | (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent |
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2 | lot | A parcel of land having fixed boundaries | |
3 | lot, fortune, destiny, fate, luck, circumstances, portion | Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | |
4 | lot, bunch, caboodle | Any collection in its entirety | |
5 | lot, set, circle, band | An unofficial association of people or groups | |
6 | lot, draw | Anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random | |
7 | Lot | (Old Testament) nephew of Abraham | |
VERB | 1 | lot | Divide into lots, as of land, for example |
2 | lot, distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out | Administer or bestow, as in small portions |
Sounds | laa't; lao't |
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Rhymes | aforethought, afterthought, Alcott, and 73 more rhymes in aat at the HyperDic website... |
afterthought, argonaut / Argonaut, cosmonaut, and 15 more rhymes in aot at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent. |
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Examples | "a lot of money" |
Synonyms | batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew |
Narrower | flood, inundation, deluge, torrent |
Broader | large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount |
Meaning | A parcel of land having fixed boundaries. |
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Examples | "he bought a lot on the lake" |
Narrower | parking lot, car park, park, parking area; vacant lot, building site |
Broader | tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel |
Verbs | lot |
Meaning | Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you). |
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Examples | "has a happy lot" |
Synonyms | fortune, destiny, fate, luck, circumstances, portion |
Narrower | good fortune, good luck; providence; misfortune, bad luck, tough luck, ill luck; failure |
Broader | condition |
Meaning | Any collection in its entirety. |
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Synonyms | bunch, caboodle |
Broader | collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage |
Meaning | An unofficial association of people or groups. |
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Examples | "they were an angry lot" |
Synonyms | set, circle, band |
Narrower | car pool; clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack, camp; cohort; conspiracy, confederacy; Four Hundred; horsy set, horsey set; jet set; party, company |
Broader | social group |
Meaning | Anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random. |
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Examples | "they drew lots for it" |
Synonyms | draw |
Broader | object, physical object |
Meaning | (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. |
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Category | Old Testament |
Broader | Jew, Hebrew, Israelite |
Meaning | Divide into lots, as of land, for example. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Broader | divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up |
Nouns | lot |
Meaning | Administer or bestow, as in small portions. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something to somebody |
Synonyms | distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out |
Narrower | assign, allot, portion; reallot; deal; give, apply |
Broader | give |