| lot | | |
| n. (quantity) | 1. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad | (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent.; "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" |
| ~ large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity | an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude. |
| ~ deluge, flood, inundation, torrent | an overwhelming number or amount.; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" |
| ~ haymow | a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation. |
| n. (location) | 2. lot | a parcel of land having fixed boundaries.; "he bought a lot on the lake" |
| ~ car park, parking area, parking lot, park | a lot where cars are parked. |
| ~ parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract, parcel | an extended area of land. |
| ~ building site, vacant lot | a lot on which there are no permanent buildings. |
| n. (group) | 3. band, circle, lot, set | an unofficial association of people or groups.; "the smart set goes there"; "they were an angry lot" |
| ~ social group | people sharing some social relation. |
| ~ car pool | a small group of car drivers who arrange to take turns driving while the others are passengers. |
| ~ clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, camp, pack | an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose. |
| ~ cohort | a band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion). |
| ~ confederacy, conspiracy | a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose. |
| ~ four hundred | the exclusive social set of a city. |
| ~ horsey set, horsy set | a set of people sharing a devotion to horses and horseback riding and horse racing. |
| ~ jet set | a set of rich and fashionable people who travel widely for pleasure. |
| ~ party, company | a band of people associated temporarily in some activity.; "they organized a party to search for food"; "the company of cooks walked into the kitchen" |
| n. (state) | 4. circumstances, destiny, fate, fortune, lot, luck, portion | your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you).; "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" |
| ~ condition | a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing.; "the human condition" |
| ~ good fortune, good luck, luckiness | an auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes. |
| ~ providence | a manifestation of God's foresightful care for his creatures. |
| ~ bad luck, ill luck, tough luck, misfortune | an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes. |
| ~ failure | lack of success.; "he felt that his entire life had been a failure"; "that year there was a crop failure" |
| n. (artifact) | 5. draw, lot | anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random.; "the luck of the draw"; "they drew lots for it" |
| ~ object, physical object | a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow.; "it was full of rackets, balls and other objects" |
| n. (group) | 6. bunch, caboodle, lot | any collection in its entirety.; "she bought the whole caboodle" |
| ~ aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage | several things grouped together or considered as a whole. |
| n. (person) | 7. lot | (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. |
| ~ old testament | the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible. |
| ~ jew, hebrew, israelite | a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties. |
| v. (social) | 8. lot | divide into lots, as of land, for example. |
| ~ carve up, dissever, divide, split, split up, separate | separate into parts or portions.; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I" |
| v. (possession) | 9. administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out | 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" |
| ~ give | transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody.; "I gave her my money"; "can you give me lessons?"; "She gave the children lots of love and tender loving care" |
| ~ allot, portion, assign | give out.; "We were assigned new uniforms" |
| ~ reallot | allot again.; "They were realloted additional farm land" |
| ~ deal | distribute cards to the players in a game.; "Who's dealing?" |
| ~ apply, give | give or convey physically.; "She gave him First Aid"; "I gave him a punch in the nose" |
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