Dictionary entry details
• LOT (noun)
Meaning:
(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Synonyms:
whole slew; mint; muckle; peck; quite a little; whole lot; slew; spate; tidy sum; mickle; good deal; great deal; hatful; lot; heap; stack; raft; batch; mass; plenty; pile; wad; flock; deal; pot; mess; sight
Context examples:
a batch of letters / a deal of trouble / a lot of money / he made a mint on the stock market / it must have cost plenty
Hypernyms ("lot" is a kind of...):
large indefinite amount; large indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lot"):
haymow (a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation)
deluge; flood; inundation; torrent (an overwhelming number or amount)
Meaning:
A parcel of land having fixed boundaries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Context example:
he bought a lot on the lake
Hypernyms ("lot" is a kind of...):
parcel; parcel of land; piece of ground; piece of land; tract (an extended area of land)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lot"):
car park; park; parking area; parking lot (a lot where cars are parked)
building site; vacant lot (a lot on which there are no permanent buildings)
Meaning:
Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
circumstances; luck; lot; fate; destiny; fortune; portion
Context examples:
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
Hypernyms ("lot" is a kind of...):
condition (a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lot"):
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; misfortune; tough luck (an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes)
failure (lack of success)
Meaning:
Any collection in its entirety
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
caboodle; bunch; lot
Context example:
she bought the whole caboodle
Hypernyms ("lot" is a kind of...):
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
Meaning:
An unofficial association of people or groups
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
band; circle; lot; set
Context examples:
the smart set goes there / they were an angry lot
Hypernyms ("lot" is a kind of...):
social group (people sharing some social relation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lot"):
car pool (a small group of car drivers who arrange to take turns driving while the others are passengers)
company; party (a band of people associated temporarily in some activity)
jet set (a set of rich and fashionable people who travel widely for pleasure)
horsey set; horsy set (a set of people sharing a devotion to horses and horseback riding and horse racing)
Four Hundred (the exclusive social set of a city)
confederacy; conspiracy (a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose)
cohort (a band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion))
camp; clique; coterie; ingroup; inner circle; pack (an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose)
Meaning:
Anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
draw; lot
Context examples:
the luck of the draw / they drew lots for it
Hypernyms ("lot" is a kind of...):
object; physical object (a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow)
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
Hebrew; Israelite; Jew (a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties)
Domain category:
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)
• LOT (verb)
Meaning:
Divide into lots, as of land, for example
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "lot" is one way to...):
carve up; dissever; divide; separate; split; split up (separate into parts or portions)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Administer or bestow, as in small portions
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
shell out; parcel out; mete out; dole out; distribute; dispense; dish out; deal out; lot; allot; administer; deal
Context examples:
administer critical remarks to everyone present / dole out some money / shell out pocket money for the children / deal a blow to someone
Hypernyms (to "lot" is one way to...):
give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "lot"):
allot; assign; portion (give out or allot)
reallot (allot again)
deal (distribute to the players in a game)
apply; give (give or convey physically)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
