Meaning of lot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A large quantity or number; a great deal.
2. A nephew of Abraham in the Bible and Quran.
3. A department of Occitania, France. Capital: Cahors (INSEE code 46).
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4. ISO 639-3 language code for Lotuko
5. A separate, appropriated portion; a quantized, subdivided set consisting a whole.
6. A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin; rare today.
7. A right tributary of the Garonne, in southern France, flowing through the departments of Lozère, Cantal, Aveyron, Lot and Lot-et-Garonne.
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8. A large quantity or number; a great deal
9. One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
10. A separate, appropriated portion; a quantized, subdivided set consisting a whole
11. A number of people taken collectively.
    informal
12. One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items
13. A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
14. A number of people taken collectively
15. That which happens without human design or forethought.
16. Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
17. The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without one's planning.
18. A prize in a lottery.
19. Allotment; lottery.
20. All members of a set; everything.
    definite
21. 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.
    historical

Equivalents

Examples

“win the whole lot (of money); i.e. jackpot”

“lots of people think so”

“He wrote to her […] he might be detained in London by a lot of business.”

“I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out.”

“a lot of stationery”

“The Lord divided the land to the tribes, each according to his lot.”

“a sorry lot”

“a bad lot”

“you lot”

“a building lot in a city”

“The defendants leased a house and lot, in the City of New-York”

“But save my life, which lot before your foot doth lay.”

“to cast lots”

“to draw lots”

“The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.”

“If we draw lots, he speeds.”

“O visions ill foreseen! Each day's lot's / Enough to bear.”

“He was but born to try / The lot of man — to suffer and to die.”

“[…] as Jones alone was discovered, the poor lad bore not only the whole smart, but the whole blame; both which fell again to his lot on the following occasion.”

“We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.”

“In the lottery[…] Sir R. Haddock one of the Commissrs of the Navy had the greatest lot, £3000 ; my coachman £ 40”

“Archons served only for one year and, since 487/6, they were chosen by lot. Generals, on the other hand, were chosen by direct election and could be reelected without limit.”

“The table was loaded with food, but by evening there was nothing but crumbs; we had eaten the lot.”

“If I were in charge, I'd fire the lot of them.”

“And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.”

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