lot
1. (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent (Freq. 13)
- a batch of letters
- a deal of trouble
- a lot of money
- he made a mint on the stock market
- see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
- it must have cost plenty
- a slew of journalists
- a wad of money
• Syn:
batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal,
hatful, heap, mass, mess, mickle, mint,
mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty,
pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate,
stack, tidy sum, wad
• Derivationally related forms:
wad (for: wad), plenteous (for: plenty), pile (for: pile), heap (for: heap)
• Hypernyms:
large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
• Hyponyms:
flood, inundation, deluge, torrent, haymow
2. a parcel of land having fixed boundaries (Freq. 5)
- he bought a lot on the lake
• Hypernyms:
tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel
• Hyponyms:
parking lot, car park, park, parking area, vacant lot, building site
3. an unofficial association of people or groups (Freq. 4)
- the smart set goes there
- they were an angry lot
• Syn:
set, circle, band
• Hypernyms:
social group
• Hyponyms:
car pool, clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle,
pack, camp, cohort, conspiracy, confederacy, Four Hundred,
horsy set, horsey set, jet set, party, company
4. your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) (Freq. 3)
- whatever my fortune may be
- deserved a better fate
- has a happy lot
- the luck of the Irish
- a victim of circumstances
- success that was her portion
• Syn:
fortune, destiny, fate, luck, circumstances, portion
• Hypernyms:
condition
• Hyponyms:
good fortune, luckiness, good luck, providence, misfortune,
bad luck, tough luck, ill luck, failure
5. anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random (Freq. 3)
- the luck of the draw
- they drew lots for it
• Syn:
draw
• Derivationally related forms:
draw (for: draw)
• Hypernyms:
object, physical object
6. any collection in its entirety (Freq. 1)
- she bought the whole caboodle
• Syn:
bunch, caboodle
• Hypernyms:
collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
1. divide into lots, as of land, for example
• Hypernyms:
divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. administer or bestow, as in small portions
- administer critical remarks to everyone present
- dole out some money
- shell out pocket money for the children
- deal a blow to someone
- the machine dispenses soft drinks
• Syn:
distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out,
dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out
• Derivationally related forms:
allotment (for: allot), dispensation (for: dispense), dispenser (for: dispense), deal (for: deal), distribution (for: distribute), distributor (for: distribute), distributer (for: distribute)
• Hypernyms:
give
• Hyponyms:
assign, allot, portion, reallot, deal,
give, apply
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something to somebody
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