lots Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. noun a large number or amount
   heaps; rafts; wads; piles; scads; slews; tons; gobs; scores; oodles; loads; dozens; stacks; lashings.
   
   • made lots of new friends
   • she amassed stacks of newspapers
2. noun (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
   plenty; great deal; pot; sight; flock; mint; slew; mountain; deal; wad; muckle; pile; lot; mickle; raft; quite a little; passel; hatful; mess; spate; heap; peck; stack; good deal; batch; tidy sum; mass.
   
   • 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
3. noun a parcel of land having fixed boundaries
   lot.
   
   • he bought a lot on the lake
4. noun an unofficial association of people or groups
   band; circle; set; lot.
   
   • the smart set goes there
   • they were an angry lot
5. noun your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
   fortune; destiny; fate; portion; lot; luck; circumstances.
   
   • 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
6. noun anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random
   draw; lot.
   
   • the luck of the draw
   • they drew lots for it
7. noun any collection in its entirety
   caboodle; lot; bunch.
   
   • she bought the whole caboodle
8. noun (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
   Lot.
   
9. verb divide into lots, as of land, for example
   lot.
   
10. verb administer or bestow, as in small portions
    dish out; deal; parcel out; dispense; distribute; dole out; administer; allot; lot; deal out; mete out; shell out.
    
    • 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
11. adverb to a very great degree or extent
    very much; a lot; a good deal; much; a great deal.
    
    • I feel a lot better
    • we enjoyed ourselves very much
    • she was very much interested
    • this would help a great deal

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