What does LOT mean?

Definitions for LOT
lɒtlot

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word LOT.

Princeton's WordNet

  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, wadnoun

    (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"

  2. lotnoun

    a parcel of land having fixed boundaries

    "he bought a lot on the lake"

  3. set, circle, band, lotnoun

    an unofficial association of people or groups

    "the smart set goes there"; "they were an angry lot"

  4. fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portionnoun

    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"

  5. draw, lotnoun

    anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random

    "the luck of the draw"; "they drew lots for it"

  6. bunch, lot, caboodlenoun

    any collection in its entirety

    "she bought the whole caboodle"

  7. Lotverb

    (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

  8. lotverb

    divide into lots, as of land, for example

  9. distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, lot, dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole outverb

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. lotnoun

    A large quantity or number; a great deal.

  2. lotnoun

    A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.

    a lot of stationery

  3. lotnoun

    One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.

  4. lotnoun

    A number of people taken collectively.

  5. lotnoun

    A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.

    a building lot in a city

  6. lotnoun

    That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.

  7. lotnoun

    Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.

  8. lotnoun

    The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.

  9. lotnoun

    A prize in a lottery.

  10. lotnoun

    Allotment; lottery.

  11. lotnoun

    All members of a set; everything.

  12. Lotnoun

    A nephew of Abraham.

  13. Lotnoun

    of biblical origin; rare today.

  14. Etymology: From hlot, from hlutan. Cognate with Dutch lot, Old High German hluz.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Lotnoun

    Etymology: hlaut, Gothick; hlot , Saxon; lot, Dutch.

    Kala at length concluded my ling’ring lot;
    Disdain me not, although I be not fair, Who is an heir of many hundred sheep,
    Doth beauty keep which never sun can burn,
    Nor storms do turn. Philip Sidney, b. i.

    Our own lot is best; and by aiming at what we have not, we lose what we have already. Roger L'Estrange, Fables.

    Prepar’d I stand; he was but born to try
    The lot of man, to suffer and to die. Alexander Pope, Odyssey.

    Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for the scape-goat. Lev. xvi. 8.

    Their tasks in equal portions she divides,
    And where unequal, there by lots decides. John Dryden, Virg.

    Ulysses bids his friends to cast lots, to shew, that he would not voluntarily expose them to so imminent danger. Notes on the Odyssey.

    If you have heard your general talk of Rome,
    And of his friends there, it is lots to blanks
    My name hath touch’d your ears; it is Menenius. William Shakespeare.

ChatGPT

  1. lot

    A lot is a defined portion or parcel of land, typically used for a specific purpose such as residential, commercial, or industrial use. It is usually identified by boundaries or property lines and can vary in size depending on the location and zoning regulations. Lots are commonly bought, sold, or developed for various purposes in the real estate market.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Lotnoun

    that which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate

  2. Lotnoun

    anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without man's choice or will; as, to cast or draw lots

  3. Lotnoun

    the part, or fate, which falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning

  4. Lotnoun

    a separate portion; a number of things taken collectively; as, a lot of stationery; -- colloquially, sometimes of people; as, a sorry lot; a bad lot

  5. Lotnoun

    a distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field; as, a building lot in a city

  6. Lotnoun

    a large quantity or number; a great deal; as, to spend a lot of money; lots of people think so

  7. Lotnoun

    a prize in a lottery

  8. Lotverb

    to allot; to sort; to portion

  9. Etymology: [AS. hlot; akin to hletan to cast lots, OS. hlt lot, D. lot, G. loos, OHG. lz, Icel. hlutr, Sw. lott, Dan. lod, Goth. hlauts. Cf. Allot, Lotto, Lottery.]

Wikidata

  1. Lot

    Lot is a department in the southwest of France named after the Lot River.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Lot

    lot, n. one's fate in the future: destiny: that which falls to any one as his fortune: that which decides by chance: a separate portion.—v.t. to allot: to separate into lots: to catalogue:—pr.p. lot′ting; pa.p. lot′ted.Cast, or Draw, lots, to determine an event by some arrangement of chances. [A.S. hlot, hlýt, a lot—hleótan, to cast lots.]

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  1. lot

    Specifically, a quantity of material all of which was manufactured under identical conditions and assigned an identifying lot number.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. lot

    The abbreviation of allotment, or allowance to wife or mother. (See ALLOTMENT.)

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Who Was Who?

  1. Lot

    Mrs. Lot's husband.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. LOT

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Lot is ranked #100791 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Lot surname appeared 179 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Lot.

    35.2% or 63 total occurrences were Asian.
    32.9% or 59 total occurrences were White.
    18.9% or 34 total occurrences were Black.
    11.7% or 21 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'LOT' in Nouns Frequency: #125

Anagrams for LOT »

  1. LTO

  2. OTL

  3. tol

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of LOT in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of LOT in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of LOT in a Sentence

  1. David Harrison:

    And I expect him to testify in any trial, even if its in a Walmart parking lot.

  2. Phurba Tashi:

    A lot of people tell me I should go one more time to break the record, but it doesn't mean anything to me, since the earthquake, when I look back at my career, my biggest disappointment is that I am still worrying about my future.

  3. Kimberly Morgan:

    Petry has really mobilized a lot Germans with her stance on asylum for refugees.

  4. Olafur Eliasson:

    One of the main sources of inspiration was for me my childhood in Iceland where the harbor,... where I spent a lot of time as my father was a sailor, sometimes filled up with boats so you could cross the harbor by going from one deck to the next.

  5. Hedvig Lindahl:

    If they doubted I could make any penalty saves, that proved them wrong, i had to stretch fully and it worked. It was pure joy. We got a lot more energy because of that.

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