Meaning of a lot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Very much; a great deal; to a large extent.
   informal, not-comparable
2. Much, a lot.
3. Often; frequently.
   informal, not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“Thanks a lot for listening to me.”

“It's a lot harder than it looks.”

“Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.”

“I go swimming a lot.”

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