Lot

Noun



 * 1) A large quantity or number; a great deal.
 * to spend a lot of money
 * lots of people think so
 * 1) A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
 * a lot of stationery
 * 1) One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
 * 2)  A number of people taken collectively.
 * a sorry lot
 * a bad lot
 * 1) A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
 * a building lot in a city
 * 1) That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
 * 2) Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
 * to cast lots
 * to draw lots
 * 1) The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
 * ... 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.
 * 1) A prize in a lottery.
 * 2) Allotment; lottery.
 * 3) * 1990: Donald Kagan, Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, chapter 2: “Politician”, page 40 (Guild Publishing; CN 2239)
 * The Greeks expected their leaders to show physical courage, whether in the athletic arena or in battle, as well as piety, generosity, and nobility. Cimon had risen to power chiefly because of his military prowess, and any rival must be able to show at least honorable service and military competence. By this time, moreover, the generals were coming to be the most important political figures in Athens. 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.
 * 1)  All members of a set; everything.
 * 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.
 * If I were in charge, I'd fire the lot of them.

Synonyms

 * load, mass, pile
 * batch, collection, group, set
 * crowd, gang, group
 * allotment, parcel, plot
 * destiny, fate, fortune
 * prize
 * See also Thesaurus:lot
 * prize
 * See also Thesaurus:lot

Derived terms

 * a lot

Adjectives for Lot
adjacent; adventurous; vacant; disreputable; enviable; dreary; toilsome; cheerless; loose-living; human; picturesque; unfortunate; homely; future; worthless; scrubby; uncomfortable; cloudless.

Verbs for Lot
administer—; apportion—; assign—; bequeath—to; cast—s; deplore—; detail—; dispense—; distribute—s; draw—s; elect by —; embrace—; parcel—; partition—; remedy—; sacrifice—; share—; throw—in with.

Thesaurus
A to Z, A to izzard, Friday, Friday the thirteenth, a mass of, a world of, abundance, accidentality, acres, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, affluence, aggregate, aggregation, all, all and sundry, allocate, allot, allotment, allow, allowance, alpha and omega, amount, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, appoint, appointed lot, apportion, appropriate to, army, array, assemblage, assign, assign to, astral influences, astrology, avalanche, bank, barrel, batch, be-all, be-all and end-all, bearings, beginning and end, bevy, big end, bigger half, bit, bite, block, blood, board lot, body, bonanza, book of fate, bountifulness, bountiousness, brand, break, breed, budget, build on, bumper crop, bunch, bundle, calculate, call, case, cast, cast lots, casualness, chance, character, chattels real, chunk, circle, circumstance, clan, clearing, clos, close, cloud, clump, cluster, clutch, clutter, color, commission, complement, condition, conglomerate, conglomeration, considerable, constellation, contingent, copiousness, copse, count, count on, covey, croft, crop, crowd, cup, cut, cut lots, cut the cards, deal, decree, demesne, denomination, depend, description, designation, destination, destine, destiny, detail, dies funestis, dividend, dole, domain, doom, dose, draw lots, draw straws, dummy share, each and every, earmark, enclave, end, equal share, estate, even lot, everything, extravagance, exuberance, fatality, fate, feather, fertility, field, fix, flight, flock, flocks, flood, flow, flukiness, foison, footing, foredoom, foreordination, form, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, forty, fractional lot, frontage, full lot, full measure, fullness, future, gamble, game, generosity, generousness, genre, genus, give, gob, gobs, good deal, good fortune, good luck, grain, great abundance, great deal, great plenty, grounds, group, grouping, groupment, grove, gush, hail, half, halver, hap, happenstance, happy chance, hassock, heap, heaps, heedless hap, helping, hive, holding, holdings, honor, host, how they fall, hunk, ides of March, ilk, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, inevitability, interest, jam, kidney, kin, kind, kismet, knot, kraal, label, land, landed property, lands, landslide, large amount, lashings, lavishness, law of averages, legion, length and breadth, liberality, liberalness, line, loads, location, lots, luck, lump, luxuriance, make, make assignments, making, manner, manor, many, mark, mark off, mark out for, mass, masses of, match coins, maximum, measure, meed, mess, messuage, mete out, mint, mob, modality, mode, modicum, moiety, moira, mold, more than enough, much, muchness, multiplicity, multitude, myriad, myriads, nature, nest, number, numbers, numerousness, odd lot, one and all, oodles, opportunity, opulence, opulency, ordain, outpouring, overflow, pack, package, package deal, pale, parcel, parcel of land, part, pass, patch, peck, percentage, persuasion, phylum, pickle, piece, pile, piles, place, planets, plat, play, play at dice, play the ponies, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, plight, plot, plot of ground, plurality, portion, portion off, position, posture, pot, power, praedium, predestination, predetermination, predicament, preference share, prevalence, principle of indeterminacy, probability, problematicness, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, profusion, property, proportion, push, quad, quadrangle, quadrat, quantities, quantity, quantum, quite a few, quite a little, quota, race, raffle off, raft, rafts, rake-off, random sample, rank, ration, real estate, real property, realty, reckon on, repleteness, repletion, reserve, restrict, restrict to, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, risk, round lot, rout, ruck, run, run of luck, scads, schedule, scores, section, segment, serendipity, set, set apart, set aside, set off, shape, share, shoal, shock, shoot craps, shower, sight, situation, slew, slews, slice, small amount, small share, sort, spate, species, speculate, sport, spot, stack, stacks, stake, stamp, standing, stars, state, station, statistical probability, status, stock, stockholding, stockholdings, stook, strain, stream, stripe, style, substantiality, substantialness, sum, superabundance, swarm, tag, teemingness, tenements, the breaks, the corpus, the ensemble, the entirety, the like of, the likes of, the lot, the whole, the whole range, theory of probability, thicket, throng, tidy sum, toft, toss, tract, tribe, trust in, tuft, tussock, type, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, unlucky day, variety, wad, wads, wealth, weird, whatever comes, wheel of fortune, whole slew, will of Heaven, wisp, worlds of

Etymology
From hlot:. Cognate with Dutch lot:, German Los:.

Translations

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 * German: Parzelle, Grund , Grundstück,


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Anagrams

 * LTO
 * OTL

Noun

 * 1) tear (from the eye)
 * Gjak, lot dhe djers — Blood, tears and sweat

Noun

 * 1) destiny, fate
 * 2) lottery ticket

Anagrams

 * tol

Noun

 * 1) share (of inheritance)
 * 2) plot (of land)
 * 3) batch (of goods for sale)
 * 4) lot (at auction)
 * 5) prize (in lottery)
 * 6) lot, fate
 * 7)  babe

Etymology
From *undefined:, from Germanic.

Noun

 * 1) jump

Noun

 * 1) flight

Noun
lot, gen lota, pl lotan


 * 1) sore, wound
 * 2) sting

Noun

 * 1) A unit of weight: 1 lot = 3 mısqal = 12.797 g

Noun

 * 1) fate, destiny