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lot

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What does lot mean?

noun

  1. A large quantity or number; a great deal.
  2. A separate, appropriated portion; a quantized, subdivided set consisting a whole.
  3. One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
More meanings (13)

noun

  1. (informal) A number of people taken collectively.
  2. A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
  3. That which happens without human design or forethought.
  4. Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
  5. The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without one's planning.
  6. A prize in a lottery.
  7. Allotment; lottery.
  8. All members of a set; everything.
  9. (historical) An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.

proper noun

  1. A nephew of Abraham in the Bible and Quran.
  2. A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin; rare today.

verb

  1. (dated) To allot; to sort; to apportion.
  2. (dated, informal) To count or reckon (on or upon).
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He spoke to me very kindly, bade me drive the pigs from a lot near by, and passed on towards the church.
Frederick DouglassNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American SlaveProject Gutenberg ebook #23
He had also a lot of hair which tumbled over his forehead in heavy locks and made his thin face seem smaller.
Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Secret GardenProject Gutenberg ebook #113
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I was glad that it had fallen to my lot to take at least one step--though blindly--into the FUTURE of medical science.
Sax RohmerThe Insidious Dr. Fu ManchuProject Gutenberg ebook #173
“Yes, we do a lot of ruining, we do. My word, a lad would take some ruining after he’d been with you.”
D. H. (David Herbert) LawrenceSons and LoversProject Gutenberg ebook #217
Heavy irons were placed upon the limbs of many of the prisoners, and their lot was made otherwise harder by the keepers.
William Wells BrownClotelle; Or, The Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; Or, The President's DaughterProject Gutenberg ebook #241