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lot

One entry found.

lot[noun]

Entry Word:
lot
Function:
noun
Text: 1 a small piece of land that is developed or available for development <we often played in the vacant lot down at the end of the street> Synonymsparcel, plat, plot, property, tract Related Wordspatch; frontage; lease; development; real estate 2 a considerable amount <they needed to do a lot of studying for the test> Synonymsabundance, barrel, bucket, bushel, deal, gobs, heap, loads, mass, mountain, much, oodles, peck, pile, plenitude, plenty, pot, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, stack, volume, wad, wealth Related Wordsembarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus; deluge, flood, overflow Near Antonymsatom, crumb, fragment, grain, iota, jot, modicum, molecule, particle, scrap, shred, tittle, whit; scattering, smattering; drop, morsel, shot; piece, portion, section; absence, dearth, lack, paucity, poverty, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, want; deficiency, deficit, inadequacy, insufficiency, meagerness, scantiness, skimpiness Antonymsace, bit, dab, driblet, glimmer, hint, lick, little, mite, mouthful, ounce, peanuts, pinch, scruple, smidgen, speck, spot, sprinkling, suspicion, taste, touch, trace 3 a small area of usually open land <we set up a picnic in the lot by the stream> — see field 1 4 a number of things considered as a unit <the auctioneer next introduced a lot containing several pieces of fine china> — see group 1 5 a state or end that seemingly has been decided beforehand <will it always be my lot to be picked last in gym class?> — see fate 1 6 a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially <you should stop hanging out with that lot, or you'll end up in trouble> — see gang 2 7 a usually small number of persons considered as a unit <the school is indeed fortunate in its science teachers, because there's not a bad one in the lot> — see group 2
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